Uganda: 3 Lessons From the Ghetto President's By-Election Triumph

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Popular musician Bobi Wine's landslide victory was about more than just his fame.

By the close of business last Thursday, Kampala was in an uproar. Robert Kyagulanyi Sentamu, a 35-year-old Ugandan musician-turned-politician better known as "Bobi Wine", had won the parliamentary seat for Kyaddondo East. His landslide victory, with around 80% of the vote, brought to an end a dramatic month of intensive campaigning in the small constituency on the outskirts of the city.

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