Norah Owaraga

First nation languages should be among official languages

“Cabinet Tuesday (6th July 2022) approved the implementation of the 21st East African Community (EAC) summit directive in Uganda to adopt Kiswahili as an official language of the community. The cabinet sitting on Monday further recommended that the teaching of Kiswahili language in primary and secondary schools should be made compulsory and examinable, according to…

A certain kind of judicial officer

I remember when the Registrar of High Court at Mbale decided to hold a locus session at our ancestral home, my late papa’s home. He claimed it was in order to establish the status quo that would be maintained if my application for an injunctive protective order were granted. He proceeded to conduct the locus…

Uganda needs to redefine who it considers “educated” and decolonize its policies

The nation-state Uganda, from its onset at political independence, is structurally designed to sustain cultural imperialism. The kind of cultural imperialism, in particular, that equates progress or being progressive to knowledge systems of the global-west. This attitude, case in point, is perhaps the real reason that Uganda has failed to move past having only English,…

Engineer George William Obityo Owaraga was a civil servant hero

The month of June for Uganda is one that is packed with activity that celebrates heroes. The controversial Uganda Martyrs’ Day on 3rd June; the equally controversial National Heroes’ Day on 9th June; and the equally controversial Fathers’ Day on 22nd June. I wonder, can my late papa, be defined as heroic in his religious…