Norah Owaraga

‘Urban-slumitisation’ of villages – the case of Teso

Change processes taking place in villages in Teso, include changes in the behaviour of Teso village dwellers, from their traditional practices to those which mimic practices of Ugandan urban dwellers who have adopted practices normally characteristic of the global west. One such change in behaviour is the habit of drinking in bars or pubs; basically…

Let us re-celebrate “grow to eat” over “buy to eat”

It started with me wanting to reduce the cost of buying banana leaves for cooking. So, last year in April 2020, in the midst of the first Uganda covid-19 induced lock down for the first wave of the pandemic, I asked our Catherine for banana suckers. Our bunch of matooke And now in the middle…

Call to protect & promote our indigenous food

Commenting on my analysis in which I used the changing composition of atap, the staple food of Iteso, the fifth largest first nation of Uganda, to demonstrate how Iteso food is being degraded readers of this website commented thus: “Thanks for highlighting articulately the importance of indigenous foods in our diets. Socio-cultural change must be…

Here is my vote for wildlife conservation

Sometimes back, a decade ago, I think, I went on holiday to Kenya with someone I shouldn’t have been holidaying with it turned out. But even while I was in the pain that came with me realizing it, I was still able to soldier on the holiday by finding refuge in taking good pictures of…