Archive for January, 2010

GUEST ARTICLE: Do we need a Luo National identity?

“Alienation at its most essential level is not poverty or unemployment. It is the inability to imagine your society and therefore to imagine yourself in it.”
- John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium

BY Ojijo Pascal

The Luo Nation has been divided and spread since the great departure from Bar El Gazher.

The Luo Nation needs a sudden shock of reorientation within itself that will divorce us from the largely irrelevant problems of the various countries of which we finally settled, make it possible to speed necessary progress towards creation of the Luo Nation and to develop some new sense of identity, some feeling of being a people who can be described – even if incorrectly – as a nation, and act as if it were so. Read the rest of this entry »

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Is Olara Otunnu running for President?

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Former UN Undersecretary General Olara Otunnu may be a factor in Uganda’s presidential elections next year, but the experienced diplomat has yet to confirm.

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