Norah Owaraga

Marriage Bill 2022 versus Iteso customary marriage – Part 2

Listening to and reading about the ongoing debate on the Private Member’s bill by Hon. Sarah Opendi, the Marriage Bill 2022, one may be persuaded to believe that customary laws of the first nations of Uganda are devoid of logic on matters marriage. “The Marriage Bill 2022 seeks to provide a comprehensive legislation on matters…

Marriage Bill 2022 versus Iteso customary marriage – Part 1

We, the Iteso, are the fifth largest first nation of Uganda and in our culture, marriage is adukokin. In Ateso, our language, adukokin means to build. And so, marriage among Iteso is when a man and his wife or wives enter into union to build a home, a family, a clan, a legacy, et cetera.…

Our ancestors’ graves and final resting places versus ‘development’

I watched a video clip that was posted by Daily Monitor on its Twitter space @DailyMonitor. It was of representatives of eleven families reacting to a High Court ruling granting Dr. Apollo Kagwa Lutakome “an interim order stopping the eleven families from carrying out activities like farming, building or any other development on the disputed…

Tip for young women on how to handle cyber bullying

Sometimes back, Apese, a young innovator against poverty in her community and with whom I have never met face-to-face, took a chance and reached out to me for help. She had prior taken the initiative to use Facebook to name and shame a ‘very big man’ in her community who had done something terribly wrong.…