Norah Owaraga

Celebrating working women on our 59th Independence Day Uganda

It delights me when I interact with women at work in what I presume to be their own businesses. And whenever I can, I support such small businesses by buying from them. These women that we found in Lira recently when we were looking for a supplier of flowers and decorative plants impressed me so.…

Blessed to know my roots and to be culturally rooted

Papa Odolot is the youngest of my late father’s brothers and he is one of the two of my late grandfather’s sons who are still alive. He is a trained teacher who taught in Kitagobwa, among other schools, in those days when teachers were to be respected or was it feared … Those who know…

We each have our time surely

The life of my papa Omio, brother to my late father, has me convinced in the belief that if it is not your day you will not die. My papa Omio “star nnyoo” as they would say in street talk here in Buganda. As a youthful man he consumed significantly, to the extent that many…

The resting place of my late papa – Ejakait Eng. George William Obityo Owaraga

While he was still alive and well, he chose that his grave be located in the section of his ancestral home that he gave me – the grounds of my house which I inherited from my late grandmother; a house which he built within his home for her, his late mother, Ajakait Joyce Mary Alinga.…