Norah Owaraga

Fact Check: State Discrimination Dr. Stella Nyanzi for nude protest

I have read a number of comments, commentaries, analysis, on social media in which the authors allege state persecution and discrimination against Dr. Stella Nyanzi. Early this week Dr. Nyanzi protested nude what she consider unjust treatment of her by the public academic institution – Makerere University Kampala – in which she is among the…

Hoes versus tractors, agriculture in the context of Uganda

Whereas a hoe is among the symbols in the emblem of the Democratic Party (DP), during Uganda’s 2016 presidential elections, the hoe was catapulted into mainstream national political debate by the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM). The NRM presidential candidate and also the President of Uganda, His Excellency President Yoweri Kagutta Museveni, pledged…

Corruption, youth & Uganda’s disaster preparedness

We have manmade disasters and then we have natural disasters. There are very many manmade disasters which are systemically obviously going to happen. People like to talk about the word corruption as a vague abstract term. Corruption is not vague, corruption is not abstract. For corruption to take place there has to be the person…

UNBS is Incompetent

I was prompted to visit the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) website because of the level of impurities in cereals on farmers’ markets in Uganda. And apparently: UNBS is “mandated to ensure fairness in trade and to enforce standards in protection of public health, safety and environment through market surveillance and sensitization”, so it…