Norah Owaraga

State of mental healthcare shows mental ill-health of Ugandans

The weekend around 3rd October 2016, a child, a young girl, clearly mentally ill is reported to have wandered away from the major mental health care facility in Uganda – Butabika National Mental Referral Hospital – which is located in Luzira, about 4 to 5 kilometers from Bugolobi in Kampala. She likely wandered away and…

Boys unhygienic doesn’t always mean they are poor

Recently, there was a storm raging on social media about the presumed appalling behaviour of the Ugandan born celebrated playwright, Mr. Alex Mukulu. Apparently, when judging a performing arts contest, he offended some when he bluntly and on camera rebuked three young men, contestants. Right after their dance performance and speaking in Luganda, he told…

Why there are many educated unemployed youth in Uganda

EDUCATION, what is it and how do the educated use their education? These are some of the questions that the research and advocacy project “Challenging Categories: educated unemployed youth as institutional innovators” presumably will interrogate. Already, the challenging categories project has sparked consciousness that education is not really a neutral term. It is quite possible…

We live our lives once, stay rooted in our people’s culture

I read this article a few minutes ago, “Going back to our roots,” by Norah Owaraga”, and liked it for the fact that it signals to fellow Africans, Ugandans to embrace their cultural diversity, norms, and values as part of success in the future. I really agree with the writer that what we do today…