Norah Owaraga

How I got my first full-time paid white-collar job

On my way back from university, after my first degree, I met a man, Mr. Stan Burkey, who was to become my first boss and at the Change Agent Training Programme, first under Quaker Service Norway and then under the Uganda Change Agent Association. We happened to be on the same flight, those days, in…

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…