Norah Owaraga

High Court rules for Kakwenza and awards him 50 millions shillings in damages

Over four years ago, in April 2020, when he was illegally detained, a concern was will he survive the detention and come out alive? At the time I wrote: “The author of the book: “The Greedy Barbarian,” Kakwenza Rukirabashaija remains in what officers of the court have described as “illegal detention.” Who will save him…

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…