Norah Owaraga

Many smallholder farmers food poor because they cannot afford to buy food

There is an urgent need for Uganda to move the debate away from the fallacy of: “Smallholder farmers in Uganda are subsistence farmers and that is why they are food poor; needing help to move from subsistence farming to modern farming.” Our smallholder farmers feed our nation and beyond and so it can’t be about…

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,…