When African musicians take the path of challenging autocratic governments, they mostly end up enduring unimaginable levels of persecution - and Uganda's Bobi Wine is one such example. Yoweri Museveni has been in power since 1986, when Bobi Wine was only 4 years old, but like any other dictator, the more Museveni sees the Ugandan public following Bobi Wine's music, and supporting his brand of politics, the more he is taking a more radical and brutal approach, bent on silencing any opposition threat to his firm grip on power.
Ugandan police say one person was killed in riots over the arrests of opposition lawmakers. Five other protesters were injured when police fired teargas and live bullets to ... Read more »
Police and the army have fired teargas and live bullets on protesters who lit fires at Kisekka Market, Namirembe Road and Kikuubo Market Lane - demanding the release of Kyadondo ... Read more »
President Yoweri Museveni has hit out at media reports that suggests that Kyadondo MP Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, was seriously injured while being apprehended ... Read more »
The legal team for Robert Kyagulanyi, better known as Bobi Wine, has revealed that the MP's health is deteriorating. Kyagulanyi was charged in the presence of his two lawyers and ... Read more »
Ugandan pop singer, MP and prominent government critic Robert Kyagulanyi - better known by his stage name Bobi Wine - has been charged illegal possession of weapons in a military ... Read more »
President Yoweri Museveni with Bobi Wine in 2017 before things fell apart (file photo).
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