Norah Owaraga

The immense power a journalist has

In reaction to a story tiled: ” Understand gender-based sexual violence to better report”, and published on the CPAR Uganda website, a veteran journalist, Opolot, had this to say: “From the time social media provided everyone a platform to be a “journalist” everything changed! I no longer go for sharp headlines! Recently, (after the death…

Where did my name come from? Well Legend has it …

My legal surname that I am known by and appears on my academic papers, Owaraga, is my late father’s name. Two legends about it, that I know of. The first legend. His father, my late grandfather, was a chief and who served under the Kabaka, King of Buganda, during the proxy colonisation of the Greater…

My favorite movies are in the drama genre

“Sound of Music” is my absolute number one favorite movie. Loved it as a child and now as a grown up, love it even more. “Sense and Sensibility” has to be my number two favorite. “The Shawshank Redemption” comes in third for me. All of the three are in the drama genre and are highly…

Teary eyed with a smile of gratitude and happiness …

What positive emotion do you feel most often? This happens to me quite often for I have learnt gratitude for those little big acts of kindness. Material gifts and other non material ones too. Many times they are done and given when I least expect them and what a pleasant surprise it is. I cannot…