Tag: #RolexFestivalUganda

• Food sovereignty versus food security

  

  Uganda, once again, should learn from Cuba on matters agriculture for food. Particularly, so, the  importance of advocating for food sovereignty versus simply advocating for food security. One can be food secure albeit not being in control of the production of the food that one consumes (food security). BUT if one is not in control […]

  Norah Owaraga

  10/10/2018

  #RolexFestivalUganda, Bidco, Cuba, Food security, Food Sovereignty, Russia, Wheat

• Uganda ‘rolex festival’ and myth of ‘development’

  

  Uganda is importing significant quantities of wheat, hence the factoids in branding ‘Rolex’ (egg omelette wrapped in chapati) as a Ugandan food. Parke (2016), for example, in a story titled: “Delicious African foods you should try” that was published by CNN, claimed ‘Rolex’ as an “African food” that is prepared by “Ugandan men all over […]

  Norah Owaraga

  03/08/2018

  Uganda

  #RolexFestivalUganda, Cultural Imperialism, Food security, Food Sovereignty, Neocolonialism