Norah Owaraga

The Government of Uganda Minister

It is justified to conclude that just like those cultivation machines, the graders clearing the land for sugarcane plantations, the Minister’s attitude and her speech seemed firmly located within a paradigm that promotes the crushing of my ancestors’ bones in the name of “development”.

Only Buganda Has a Land Board,Why?

Where is the Teso Land Board? Where is the Lango Land Board? Where is the Acholi Land Board? Do such boards exist? If they do, why are they not as pronounced and as loud as the Buganda Land Board?

‘Bro-Code’ on Gender Based Violence

And these deep rooted negative perceptions of women are not necessarily endogenous to African-Ugandan cultures, but have evolved with the global-western modernisation neoliberal school of thought.

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

If women do not have the courage to publicly call out those men close to us, our relatives, when they behave badly, I conclude that we are not truly emancipated nor empowered.