Bobi Wine stands on a motorbike as he travels Uganda campaigning for the opposition.
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An emotional roller coaster, the film tracks the pop star’s political battle up close and personal.
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This year, all the Oscar nominees for best documentary feature come from outside of the United States.
A memorial to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny laid in Saint Petersburg on February 16, 2024.
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Donald Trump says he’s being politically persecuted, like Russian democracy martyr Alexei Navalny, who died while in a Russian prison on Feb. 16. A scholar says there’s no comparison between the men.
Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, on the campaign trail ahead of Uganda’s 2021 general election.
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Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
Youth-targeted strategies are part of the authoritarian rule book in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia.
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Africa’s youth are not countering the deepening of autocratisation across the continent.
A fire burns during violent protests in Kampala, Uganda, on 18 November 2020.
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State security agents violently quashed protests following the 2020 arrest of musician-turned-politician Bobi Wine.
President Yoweri Museveni salutes the army during the 25th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Army in 2005.
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The founding story of Museveni’s government remains persuasive for a great many people 37 years later.
A patrol car of the Ugandan police is seen stationed outside the headquarters of the Uganda oppposition party National Unity Platform (NUP) on January 20, 2021.
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Arbitrary detention and torture are both prohibited under local and international laws.
Protesters march towards a line of Kenyan riot police during post-election violence in Nairobi in 2007.
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It is often assumed that patrimonial beliefs fuel electoral malpractice whereas civic ones challenge it, but this is an oversimplification.
Joseph Kazibwe, with his wife Magere, listen to radio updates of the Uganda presidential election result in January 2021.
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For those keen to advance democracy and freedom in Uganda, the starting point is to take in the lessons of history.
Campaign posters of President Yoweri Museveni hang on a cable a day after the election commission said he won a sixth term in office.
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Museveni’s attempt to gain support in urban areas in the 2021 elections was not only about repression. But it still failed.
Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, addresses supporters in Uganda’s capital Kampala.
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Opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyangulanyi has repeatedly been underestimated by government supporters and critics since he first ran for parliament.
Ugandan musician-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi addresses the media after his car was shot at by police in eastern Uganda during his campaign.
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Never has a political contest in Uganda’s history been so furiously played out in the media space as the 2021 national elections.
Ugandan soldiers shoot at demonstrators during riots in Kampala sparked by the arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye in 2011.
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Uganda must overhaul its national legal framework on the use of force and firearms during law enforcement.
Ugandan singer-turned-politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine being arrested on charges of unlawful assembly.
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In surpassing opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye, Robert Kyagulanyi has done what many Ugandans thought impossible. But can he topple Museveni?
Julius Malema, leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), arrives at Parliament wearing a hard hat and overall to show solidarity with coal mine workers.
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From red berets to full-on cosplaying, leaders across the continent have a robust relationship with fashion.
Uganda is preparing for its next election amid COVID-19 containment measures.
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Debate is raging as to whether Uganda can hold a scientific election, preceded by mass media and digital campaigns.
Bobi Wine.
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Uganda’s COVID-19 task force would do well to embrace pop music in its public health communications.
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Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
Ugandan opposition politician Bobi Wine takes a selfie with Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Nelson Chamisa
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Bobi Wine in Uganda does it; so do the Economic Freedom Fighters in South Africa. The red beret is worn to signify the revolutionary. Its power lies in a symbolism that combines art and politics.