Norah Owaraga

People online that I have never met

I think that increasingly I spend more time with people that I have never physically met. People from around the world who contribute to online discourse in a way that keeps me interested and engaged for hours. Like this past couple of days, from a cultural anthropological perspective, I am entranced with chatter generated by…

All chocolate bars I get my hands on

On chocolate bars I am not necessary loyal. Any and all bars that I get my hands on are my dream bar. In the logic of the line from the movie “Forest Gump”: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” My latest consumed (pictured), a gift from my…

On fibroids I speak out against medical misogyny

ON FIBROIDS, I comment as one who had to go through surgery to remove a fibroid and who suffered the devastating effects of being afflicted with one that colonized my uterus for years. Under the fabulous care of Dr. David Ndawula, a Ugandan medical doctor specialized as a GP – General Practitioner. Thereafter, the surgical…

Books that have had a huge impact on my life

Three books are on my mind. For decades, I have read them over and over again; and each time it benefits me a self-liberation. Okot pBitek’s Song of Lawino, a poem set in Uganda in the 1960s and remains relevant today as Uganda grapples with the interaction of legacies of colonialism and knowledge systems of its…