Norah Owaraga

Disease pandemic management task forces need cultural anthropologists

Hands down, in comparison to the others, the Government of Uganda under the National Resistant Movement (NRM) administration, led by His Excellency President Yoweri Kagutta T. Museveni, initially did a commendable job of enforcing prevention of the spread of covid in Uganda. The evidence to support this assertion is there. For example, the following statistics…

As women dominate top echelon of Cabinet…

Time will tell if Her Excellency the Vice President Hon. Jessica Rose Epel Alupo, a retired Major of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, shall have a visible, clear and substantive role in the actual day to day running of our nation; or she will remain hidden behind scenes and will serve her term of office…

Budget allocates more to MPs than to doctors

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended doctor to population ratio is at least 20 medical doctors per 10,000 people, as in the WHO recommended doctor to population ratio is 1:500. In Pallisa District, my home district in Eastern Uganda, for example, the doctor to population ratio is 1:45,854; nearly more than 92 times higher than…

How first Karamojong women were appointed into Uganda’s cabinet

In December 2019, as the keynote speaker at the first ever Karamoja Women’s Conference, I asked women of Karamoja thus: “Through a qualitative lens, are you, the women of Karamoja, convinced that the two Karimojong men in Cabinet are able and are fully equipped to represent the Karimojong women’s voice during policy initiation and discussion…