Balaalo have exited the north; let Zebu cows occupy the space

Sometime in 2015, while travelling with my former boss and now the Member of Parliament representing Older Persons of Eastern Uganda, Mr Orwono Opondo, we had my mind in a way that arose to revealing.

We were on a trip to Arua City. As we traversed the plains and valleys of Nwayo District, en route to Packwach, I momentarily went silent as I admired the green pastures that form the vast lands that define the whole of northern Uganda. Nwoya offers an expansive, sweeping landscape defined by wide-open savanna plains and a draught, boundless horizon.