Bobi Wine in San Francisco, Calif., United States, Nov. 17, 2019. Photo: Edwin Okong’o.
Ugandan recording artist and actor, and philanthropist, Bobi Wine, speaks with Africa Straight Talk about his education, music career, family, and his unlikely entry into politics. The man popularly known as “The Ghetto President” was elected to Parliament in 2017 and has since been jailed and allegedly tortured by the security forces of President Yoweri Museveni. But that has not deterred him. In fact it has emboldened him so much, he says, that now he is on a quest end the long-running regime of “the dictator” in the next election to be held in 2021. The Museveni has labeled Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, “enemy of progress in Uganda.”
Edwin Okong’o is not your typical, stereotypical African. He is a storyteller by any medium necessary™. Okong'o is an award-winning journalist, humorist, satirist and memoirist. He received his master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied radio, newspaper, magazine, and online multimedia storytelling and editing. Okong’o’s journalistic work, provocative commentaries, and stand-up comedy performances have appeared in numerous media across the world. He is the winner of several honors, including a Webby Award for his short documentary, "Kenya: Sweet Home, Obama", which he made for the PBS program, Frontline.
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