Norah Owaraga

Transatlantic slave trade and colonial rule in Africa I remember

As I grow older, increasingly, I yearn for tit bits of information about our African cultures prior to the transatlantic slave trade and the colonial period. “The transatlantic slave trade was an oceanic trade in African men, women, and children which lasted from the mid-sixteenth century until the 1860s. European traders loaded African captives at…

Is Uganda law society broke?

There is something that the President of the Uganda Law Society (ULS), Senior Counsel Isaac Ssemakade, said during his recent X-Space conversation that was hosted by Public Square that we, his highly engaged listeners, seem to have allowed to roll off our shoulders, so to speak. Senior Counsel Ssemakadde said something to the effect that…

Impeachment of Kenya Deputy President Lessons for Uganda

“Kenya senate upholds Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua impeachment,” announced The East African, yesterday. This momentous and humongous event is on my mind. What a great example of democratic governance and defense of a nation’s constitution. No one is above the supreme law of the land, wow! An ideal difficult to believe enforceable in the minds…

For my mental health I learnt to feel safe in my own company

As I grow older I am more at ease with the realization that I am not that good with group think. You know, the need to restrain yourself and bottle it up to comply with what is considered acceptable by societal norms. And so, I have become comfortable as a recluse; justifying it in the…