Norah Owaraga

To defeat terrorism we must all ‘stand with multiculturalism’

In August of 2011 Anders Behring Breivik, a 32 year old ethnic Norwegian, a white, racist, xenophobic, Christian fundamentalist terrorised Norway killing one too many people by spraying them with bullets. Since then there have been multiple terror attacks the world over. Unfortunately, other nations did not learn lessons from the manner in which Norway…

Cultural appropriation and inappropriate use for politicking

On Facebook are images alleging Uganda police brutality – undressing a woman who is a member of the Forum for Democratic Change. However, Justus Amanya in a post also on Facebook shared video footage showing that it is actually not the police who undressed the woman but rather it is the woman who undressed herself.…

Research Findings: NGOs and accountability issues

There are over 11 thousand Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Uganda (Mwesigwa 2015) and those NGOs often operate within a binary paradigm in which they perceive themselves as the voice of Uganda’s civil societies, particularly of those sections of the population that they categorise as marginalised and/or oppressed. Thus, NGO descriptions of those for whom they…

Research Findings: Governments do not trust NGOs

A story on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) recently caught my attention and set off my reflective mind. The story was titled: “How the NGO crackdown has spread to some democratic nations” (The Guardian Weekly 2015). The ‘democratic’ nations that were mentioned in the story were Israel, Ecuador and Hungary. According to the story, in Israel “NGOs…