Norah Owaraga

Those brands which promote extended familial support systems

Is it me, or are brands increasingly marketed to promote individualism and to isolate us from extended familial ties and support systems? I am feeling nostalgic and longing to be living in a village where everybody knows and looks out for thy neighbor. Where the divide between the haves and have-nots isn’t glaringly wide. In…

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…