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OscarⓇ-Nominated Documentary BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT Returns to Theaters President’s Day Weekend for Limited Run

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Museveni has been in power since 1986 and changed Uganda’s constitution to enable him to run for yet another five-year term.

Key Points: 
  • Museveni has been in power since 1986 and changed Uganda’s constitution to enable him to run for yet another five-year term.
  • More recently, the film was nominated for Best Documentary at the 96th Academy Awards.
  • It was awarded the prestigious Best Documentary Feature Award by the International Documentary Association (IDA).
  • The following theaters will be showing BOBI WINE: THE PEOPLE’S PRESIDENT:
    New York - Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film - Find showtimes here .

Uganda's battle for the youth vote – how Museveni keeps Bobi Wine’s reach in check

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Mittwoch, Januar 17, 2024
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Young people aged below 30 make up about 77% of the country’s population of 47 million people.

Key Points: 
  • Young people aged below 30 make up about 77% of the country’s population of 47 million people.
  • Opportunities remain limited, with two-thirds of Ugandans working for themselves or doing family-based agricultural work.
  • Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in the 2021 election highlights the reality that capturing the youth vote in Uganda is complex.
  • The outcome of the 2021 elections defied expectations, given Uganda’s large and underemployed youth population and the emergence of Bobi Wine.


the structural capture of youth representation in Ugandan politics
diverse economic incentives for political loyalty in the form of loan schemes, grants and short-term employment
well-spun political narratives that draw on entrenched views of youth as beholden to their elders and the state.

New wine, old bottles

  • Commentators worldwide suggested his candidacy represented a real and unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
  • This is about the same proportion of votes that has accrued to the main opposition candidates in Uganda since multi-party elections resumed in 2006.
  • There were also reports of the ruling party dishing out money to potential voters, with instructions to vote for Museveni.
  • Contemporary tactics used by the ruling party to co-opt the youth converge with these historically rooted methods of regime consolidation.

Splitting the youth

  • First, the youth are organised into a “special interest group” reinforced through quota systems.
  • Political structures, such as youth MPs and representatives, absorb youth representation under regime authority and entrench regional divisions.
  • Ahead of the 2021 election, Museveni gave state appointments to popular musicians with wide youth appeal who had been working closely with Bobi Wine’s party.
  • Youth are often recruited as election workers, special police constables and crime preventers.

What hope for Bobi Wine?

  • In northern Uganda, for example, young people have lived through a recent history of devastating conflict and still struggle with its legacies.
  • Against this backdrop, if Bobi Wine contests in 2026, he is likely to struggle again.
  • Arthur Owor, the director for research and operations at the Centre for African Research, is a co-author of this article.


Rebecca Tapscott receives funding from the ESRC-funded Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID) and the Gerda Henkel Foundation's Special Programme for Security, Society and the State. Anna Macdonald receives funding from the ESRC-funded Centre for Public Authority and International Development (CPAID).

Ugandan church waged rebellion against tradition – today's homophobic views are at odds with history

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Sonntag, Juni 18, 2023
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The bill’s aim is to protect the “cherished culture of the people of Uganda, (and the) legal, religious, and traditional family values of Ugandans”.

Key Points: 
  • The bill’s aim is to protect the “cherished culture of the people of Uganda, (and the) legal, religious, and traditional family values of Ugandans”.
  • In the name of family values the law punishes “serial offenders” with the death penalty.
  • The Church of Uganda’s archbishop, Stephen Kaziimba, has supported the bill, and when it was signed he expressed his church’s gratitude to the president.
  • Anita Among, the speaker of parliament, celebrated the new law’s defence of “the sanctity of the family”.

The east African revival

    • The formative influence on Uganda’s Protestant church is the east African revival, a conversion movement that began in northern Rwanda and southern Uganda in 1936 and spread through Kenya, Tanganyika, Sudan and other parts of eastern Africa.
    • The revival was led by African evangelists, many of them women.
    • They burned their fathers’ shrines, destroyed the equipment of diviners, and flouted traditional standards of decorum.
    • One of southern Uganda’s most emphatic revivalists was a young woman named Julaina Mufuko.

Counter-cultural beliefs

    • Revivalists distanced themselves from their families, rejecting their kin and refusing to honour their ancestors.
    • They refused to take part in funerals, brushing off their obligations with the saying “Let the dead bury their own dead”.
    • Revivalists were among the many who suffered and died, most famously the Janani Luwum, archbishop of the Church of Uganda.
    • In the wake of Amin’s fall in 1979 a new generation had to plot a path forward.

Why this matters today

    • Since he came to power in 1986 Museveni has brought his government into an alliance with the Protestant church.
    • Today, Museveni uses the power of government to author other people’s salvation.
    • This history of Christian nonconformism should lead church leaders to look with sympathy on gay Ugandans’ situation today.