Norah Owaraga

Ethnicity an important factor

“Ethnicity will always be a key element in Uganda’s political organizing. We identify more with our ethnicity than with ‘Ugandaness’.” Maria Alesi The ethnocide of the first nations of Uganda is our most important and central negative legacy of colonialism. Unfortunately, it sustains unabated, and is the epicenter nurturing significant discomfort among us. Uganda, the…

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…

Refusal of male partner responsibility for pregnancy

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…