Norah Owaraga

My top five favorite fruits

Number 1: Tomatoes. I honestly do not think that there is a day that goes by and I have not eaten tomatoes in whatever form. I love eating them fresh and I use them a lot in enhancing the food that I cook. My breakfast of millet porridge and indigenous small sweet bananas (sukali ndizi)…

Proactively find time to spend with loved ones

As I plan for work and hold myself to a high standard in keeping work schedules, I should equally do for time with loved ones. Spend more quality time with them, even though it be virtual, since many of them live in other geographies. I know how I can find the time. I need to…

In a state of gratefulness

When I have peace of mind to appreciate my genuine loved ones; that I am loved; and living a good life, within my means; this is what freedom means to me. For example, I am grateful for my immediate biological family, children of my mother, their spouses and their children, each and everyone of them…

Full time academia

I dream of a country and a world in which policies that matter in the lives of people are made on the basis of empirical evidence. I dream. I dream to be among academics from different fields of study who pro-actively and or are intentionally consulted to bounce off ideas from different points of view…