Uganda: Ghetto President Bobi Wine

Sebataka Mulyamenvu's home in Kisenyi I village in Kamwokya, a Kampala suburb, is just a few metres off Kira Road; the neat duo-carriage city road lined with beautiful storied bungalows, flower gardens, and paved walkways. If you go to one side of the road, you enter the posh residential neighbourhood of Kololo which is home to top government officials, expatriates, and tourists who throng Kampala's most modern shopping area; the Acacia Mall in the Kisementi area.

On the other side of the same Kira Road, however, is Mulyamenvu's home. To get to it, one crosses a make-shift market, follows very narrow alleys past seemingly endless columns of tiny congested single-room houses heavy with the reef of alcohol, tobacco, and even marijuana.

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