Norah Owaraga

Role of cultural anthropology in Ebola control

The address that His Excellency President Yoweri Kagutta Museveni gave a couple of days ago, on the Ebola Virus Disease, reminded me of this post, “pandemic management task forces need cultural anthropologists” that I authored during the Covid pandemic. President Museveni implied human induced causation of the spread of Ebola from other animals to humans.…

Vice President Alupo is visible

I honestly think that among the Vice Presidents of Uganda in the recent past, Her Excellency Jessica Rose Epel Alupo, retired Major of the Uganda People’s Defense Forces, has played an overt and visible role more than her predecessors. She has severally and ably represented Uganda at presidential level not only in-country, but globally too.…

Assuming we are of one first nation and language

We are among the most diverse nations in the world in terms of our first nations; possibly the most diverse, in fact. For a country the size of ours, 65 indigenous communities are a lot. CLICK HERE for details on the indigenous communities of Uganda. I am of the fourth largest first nation of Uganda,…

I overcame fear and lodged a formal complaint

First, a clarification. I am not 100% there yet. But to a significant degree I can claim to have overcome much of the fear that holds many of us in my homeland hostage, the fear of lodging a formal complaint. In the culture that I am socialized, there seems an unwritten code that encourages unofficial…