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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alice McCool

Oscar nomination gives Bobi Wine new hope of toppling Uganda’s regime

A young black man in a purple jacket and red beret gives a clenched-fist salute in front of a Bafta film award backdrop
Bobi Wine at this month’s Bafta film awards in London. Moses Bwayo, director of Bobi Wine: The People’s President, says the police withdrew from Wine’s home, where the family had been under house arrest, when the Oscars nomination was announced. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty

When the Ugandan musician turned politician Bobi Wine ran for president, his 2020 campaign was thwarted by violent crackdowns by Yoweri Museveni’s regime. Since the election, Bobi Wine – whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu – and his wife, Barbie, say that, from phone tapping to abductions of his supporters, things have been “pretty much the same” in many ways.

With one key difference: the release of the feature documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President.

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