Last Wednesday Kyadondo East MP and banned singer Bobi Wine released his latest hit titled Freedom. In the song Bobi Wine compares President Museveni’s regime to South Africa’s apartheid era that was characterised by police brutality, greed for power, discrimination, and all sorts of injustices! The song came at a time when police barred Bobi from holding any concerts anywhere in the country.
However, the following day, Bobi flew out to Durban, South Africa where he held a meeting with the Ugandan community in South Africa and discussed several issues on the state of affairs in Uganda. Bobi later performed and thrilled his countrymen. Like the man on a mission though, Bobi requested everyone that would attend his show to come dressed in red or with a red ribbon, and a large part of the congregation duly complied. When he hit the Viking Sandblasting in East London, Cape Town last Friday, the red-ribbon turn up was even bigger. It was the same when he visited Pretoria. We are yet to see how government will react to Bobi’s concerts abroad. They might just ban him from traveling out of the country; towakana, this is Uganda!