Uganda: Bobi Wine, Uganda’s People’s President, Comes to America With a New Feature Film

[Afropop] There are few musicians in modern history, certainly modern African history, who can hold a candle to Fela Kuti when it comes to brazen courage in standing up to powerful despots. Uganda’s Bobi Wine is one. Since his election to the Ugandan Parliament in 2016, the 41-year-old popular musician has spoken out fearlessly for the rights of his country’s poor and repressed citizens. It seems abundantly clear that Wine actually won Uganda’s 2021 presidential election, in which he challenged the 35-year despotic