Norah Owaraga

Legal rights on paper can be meaningless …

The emphasis of the official United Nations International Women’s Day theme for 8th March 2026, rings true for me at a personal level and overall too for my motherland. “Legal rights on paper are meaningless without justice in practice.” While I continue to fight on, the battle is uphill. In keeping with the International Women’s…

We have come full circle…

“On social media, the posts, tweets, news up-dates, give a distinct impression that the whole of Kampala, hell the whole of Uganda is on fire in protests against the incumbent. That is not exactly truthful. My post election observations from Pallisa, my home district in Eastern Uganda, driving through Teso in North-Eastern Uganda and…

Grieving for papa hardest phase to let go …

Thank you papa for your love of me. Post your death, several people who have no need or reason to lie to me, unprompted, have told me how you let them know how you loved me so. I now realize many ways in which you did try to shield me from hate, but I, busking…

Decolonize words and concepts

“The concept of Africans eating three meals a day, is post-colonial. In pre-colonial Africa, people ate whenever they were hungry. In one of the letters from the English to their missionaries in Congo, the sender spoke of how the negro mind had no proper perception of time and if they were going to get them…