Norah Owaraga

Would love to spend more time with real people at the grassroots

I would love to spend more time with real people at the grassroots, that is what I could do more of. In the 1990s, I loved working with the Change Agent Training (CAT) Programme, first under Quaker Service Norway and then then the Uganda Change Agent Association. CAT was a series of 8-week residential courses…

Music library for oral cultures, without it nations would be uninformed

The cultures for all the 50 plus first nations of Uganda are essentially oral. Our history is captured and archived in music – songs, plays, drama, poetry, all, mostly in the oral form. A lot of the lyrics or words are spontaneously added during performances. The same song is modified each time it is performed,…

Review ULS Presidential Debate hosted by Female Lawyers Network

Yesterday, for the first time ever, I tuned in to an X-Space conversation and listened in. It was the one hosted by the Female Lawyers Network for the candidates of the presidency of the Uganda Law Society (ULS). X data shows that over 39,200 tuned in to the debate last evening, 16th September 2024, and…

Gov’t accused of abusing Court to aid land grabbing for EACOP

“To protect and assist the public in Uganda in all matters touching, ancillary or incidental to the law,” is among the objects for which the Uganda Law Society is established (Uganda Law Society Act, CAP 276, 1956, revised 2000). In which case, I ask: “Government Sues 80 Community Members over EACOP Project Government wants the…