Norah Owaraga

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…

Did your MP speak during the plenary?

It is campaign season. As they pick up party primary nomination forms, what questions are we the electorate asking of our people’s representatives? Are we even bothering to find out how they have truly done their jobs? What is documented in the Hansard, is the universally accepted objective means of verification for evaluating performance of…