Norah Owaraga

Promote domestic tourism for self-education on indigenous knowledge

On this 26th day of January 2022, the NRM Liberation Day remembrance, my thoughts are dominated by what liberation actually means to us in our day to day lives in Uganda. I am especially concerned by the way in which we “modernise” or more accurately “global-westernise” by losing a lot of our good food and…

Defend Bugingo for God allows polygamy

I wonder whose faith is skin-deep and is simply intoxicated by religion, as in Karl Marx’s “religion is the opium of the people.” Is it of the: Pastor who publicly humiliated his wife and sought to divorce her, in order that he marries his concubine? Followers who cheered their pastor on as he publicly humiliated…

Lesson – small family farms feed Russia

Smallholder farmers feed our nation Uganda and beyond. So, it is a wonder that backyard gardening for food is mostly frowned upon here. “It is for the poor,” many have surmised. And so, it is the norm that in the urban ares of Uganda, especially, that large chunks are utilised to grow aesthetically pleasing non-edible…

Rest well Professor Mutebile

“I will ensure that oil money is spend on agriculture and infrastructure and not on consumption… If that money is badly used, I will resign because I cannot be party to corruption. Bank of Uganda Governor, Professor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile, 2010 (quoted by Daily Monitor And now he is gone before the oil comes out…