Norah Owaraga

Tundu Lissu’s Magufuli Died of Covid-19 Thesis – Part 2

The first Covid-19 case in Tanzania had been diagnosed in March of 2020. At first, Magufuli’s approach to the pandemic was consistent with the measures recommended by the World Health Organisation and reflected the global scientific consensus. But as the death toll began to rise and the true political and economic ramifications of the pandemic…

Lissu’s Magufuli Died of Covid-19 Thesis – Part 1

The cause and the actual date of death of the late Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli are bitterly contested. Announcing his death on the evening of Wednesday, 17 March 2021, then Tanzanian Vice President and now President Samia Suluhu Hassan told the nation and the world that Magufuli had died earlier that evening of complications…

Magufuli’s Legacy – cost of authoritarian rule by decree

“Thomas Sankara ruled by decree for most of his three years reign and was killed. Patrice Lumumba ended the same way. They were killed by the system they served, because they did not take into consideration building consensus among the people that they led. Now, I truly understand the mistakes they made, even though they…

Christian God in Ateso, Edeke, is god of calamity

It is fascinating how the modern day Christian God is referred to in Ateso as Edeke. This is because, before Christianity arrived in Teso, among the Iteso, the fifty largest first nation of Uganda, Edeke was the god of calamity. Edeke was dreaded and when things went wrong, it was the norm that Edeke was…