Norah Owaraga

Burden of Uganda’s Bastardized Westminster System of Government

While 71 percent of the nation’s budget for fighting the tuberculosis epidemic in the country, albeit it being silent one, the time and resources that Uganda is investing in parliamentary campaigns and in elections is huge. How does this make sense?

STALKING IS A REAL AND PRESENT DANGER THESE DAYS

Originally posted on kalungikabuye: Sylvia Rwabwogo A few weeks ago a certain ‘young man’ named Brian Isiko was in the news for all the wrong reasons, but strangely some folks did accept the ‘wrongness’ of what he did. Tabloid sites were all over themselves proclaiming how Isiko had been jailed for love. It probably sounded…

Uganda ‘rolex festival’ and myth of ‘development’

Uganda is importing significant quantities of wheat, hence the factoids in branding ‘Rolex’ (egg omelette wrapped in chapati) as a Ugandan food. Parke (2016), for example, in a story titled: “Delicious African foods you should try” that was published by CNN, claimed ‘Rolex’ as an “African food” that is prepared by “Ugandan men all over…

Sexual Pacification in Politics in Uganda

When women persist in participating in politics, they are asked – “what kind of a woman are you? You are big-headed”.