“Mr Wine is a journalists’ dream. He likes to wear red berets, and styles himself as a rapper revolutionary, taking on the M7 machine (as Museveni is known in the Uganda press). He drives a Cadillac, with “Ghetto” on the number plate. “
Hmm.
Phil Bolton
3 years ago
Good that many are fed up of aging despots … let’s hope they don’t get younger ones instead !
Chris Wheatley
3 years ago
The politics of Africa are unreal. But the idea of rap music to disseminate political ideas is not totally bad.
Peter Boreham
3 years ago
This is nothing new. Look at the very positive role that Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil played in highlighting the evils of martial law in Brazil. That story had a happy ending but only after imprisonment and exile… (Google Veloso’s Gil “London-London” – the Guardian website has a good article)
Bobi Wine, the great black hope of Uganda, was excluded from the Uk not long ago for his part in the hip hop ‘murder music’ tradition, whose lyrics advocate the torture and killing of lgbt people. He is a vicious thug. Secondly, popular ‘celebrities’ don’t have a great track record in politics. Remember someone called Trump?
“Mr Wine is a journalists’ dream. He likes to wear red berets, and styles himself as a rapper revolutionary, taking on the M7 machine (as Museveni is known in the Uganda press). He drives a Cadillac, with “Ghetto” on the number plate. “
Hmm.
Good that many are fed up of aging despots … let’s hope they don’t get younger ones instead !
The politics of Africa are unreal. But the idea of rap music to disseminate political ideas is not totally bad.
This is nothing new. Look at the very positive role that Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil played in highlighting the evils of martial law in Brazil. That story had a happy ending but only after imprisonment and exile… (Google Veloso’s Gil “London-London” – the Guardian website has a good article)
What could possibly go wrong?
I think of Fela Kuti.
Don’t be shy. Tell us why you think of Fela Kuti.
Bobi Wine, the great black hope of Uganda, was excluded from the Uk not long ago for his part in the hip hop ‘murder music’ tradition, whose lyrics advocate the torture and killing of lgbt people. He is a vicious thug.
Secondly, popular ‘celebrities’ don’t have a great track record in politics. Remember someone called Trump?