Norah Owaraga

I am Alinga

Culturally, my first name is Alinga. A week after I was born I was named in an Iteso naming ceremony. I was named after the mother of my father, my grandmother Ajakait Joyce Mary Alinga. My name Alinga is part of my social capital. Within Iteso culture the name that one is given signifies one’s…

Live on Dr. Mungherera’s Legacy of Activism

Dr. Margaret Mungherera has succumbed to her long battle against cancer and has died in a hospital in India. Ugandans and the World received this horrible sad news on 4th February 2017. She died in a hospital in India for no hospital in Uganda could provide her with the care that she needed! Shame on…

Re-think the splitting of Districts into Minute Units

Pallisa District whose annual revenue collection is about 130 million shillings only was represented by five MPs that cost the nation 900 million shillings per year during the previous parliament? Pallisa is among the list of districts that is going to be split further. This has a direct consequence of increasing the size of parliament…

here’s to a true Ugandan hero!

“And I look forward to the James Mulwana Trade Shows where only Ugandan products are accepted – no Chinese imports, Iranian carpets or pieces of Egyptian furniture stacked up on floors laid in Italian Tiles.” I do too, most certainly. scare-a-hero We can’t say enough about James Mulwana and the fact that he is a…