Norah Owaraga

Report: Camille Cosby Believes Women Consented To Drugs, Sex With Bill Cosby

She was a rape victim who accepted tuition fees from the rapist for years … Why, why, why? Me thinks the answer goes beyond just one man. It lies within the wider ‘hollywood’ or ‘star culture’ within the individualistic neoliberal paradigm … If we look closer, perhaps rape is all around us – of the…

DOING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

Originally posted on CPAR Uganda: CPAR Uganda has partnered with Alinga Farms to add value to eboo (cow peas leaves) – vegetable sun drying using the indigenous knowledge of the Lango peoples of Uganda – one of the examples of CPAR Uganda’s genuine wealth creation initiatives – food for you good health and for income…

Urban-slumitisation of villages, land dispossession and food insecurity in Teso

Introduction: In 1959, the Iteso were the second largest nationality in Uganda and by 2002 they were the fifth largest – making up at least 6.4 percent of Uganda’s population (Uganda Bureau of Statistics 2006). This paper uses the example of Teso (the area – in North-Eastern Uganda) and Iteso (the people) but the analysis…

Children, the first victims in land grabs

Originally posted on KARAMOJA DEVELOPMENT FORUM: The rights of children are unequivocal, regardless of circumstance Since 1991 when the Organization of African Unity (now African Union) gazzetted June 16th the Day of the African child in memory of the children murdered in 1976 in a demonstration against the apartheid regime in Soweto, the day has…