Norah Owaraga

Count in Human Beings

“Nobel laureates, economists, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for a paradigm change. They want their profession to consider EMPIRICAL REALITY rather than indulging in FICTIONAL MODELS. In particular, they resent TV economists who sell DISTORTED PLATITUDES as deep insights.” D+C 2020/05-06 This morning, I happened on a book review of the book: “Good economics…

Iteso Lens on Cabinet

Using President Yoweri Kagutta Museveni’s 14th December 2019 Cabinet, hence forth to be referred to as “Cabinet”, put to test the assertion: “first nations of Uganda are a major factor that cannot be rubbished away by a president.” A cursory look at Cabinet, may give an impression that Mr. Museveni’s allocation of Cabinet positions is…

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…