Norah Owaraga

Uganda’s Ethnicity Politics

This week, judging from the chatter on social media, the major systemic discomfort arising from the fallacy of Uganda as being a naturally united nation-state of a united people overtly cracked. Tensions boiled over, among Ugandans, on matters of who is who in public national governance. Basically, like an active volcano, that systemic discomfort that…

Gender Lens on Best Ministers

A deeper analysis of Mr. Museveni’s cabinet of six months ago, in fact, reveals that the top five positions in cabinet – President, Vice President, Prime Minister, and the 1st and 2nd Deputy Prime Ministers – were all men, and it continues to be the case even now. Of the full ministers in Mr. Museveni’s…

Rid Policy of Gender-Based Violence

Hypocrisy of our MPs at its best. But such which is consistent with some institutionalised negative beliefs and practices in our communities in Uganda; including the legacies of negative conservative christian religiosity that was forced down our throats by colonial missionaries. We must detoxify and decolonize our minds so we may shun warped moralists who…

How the food aid business is the driver of food insecurity in Uganda

The first question being, in whose interests does the Office of the Minister of MAAIF work How isn’t it valid for one not to surmise that government’s insistence to label Ugandan smallholder farmers in derogatory terms, such as peasants, when they are not; and subsistence farmers, when they are not; is intended after all. It…