Bobi Wine: The People’s President (12A)
Directed by Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp

 
THIS gripping and frankly shocking documentary chronicles how one of Uganda’s most successful popstars turned activist Bobi Wine became a politician and embarked on ending at the ballot box President Yoweri Museveni’s oppressive 35-year regime.

Shot over the course of five years, the film follows Wine and his wife Barbie. As he became opposition leader, they both risked their lives as well as that of their children to stop the president, who came to power in 1986, from winning a sixth term in office.

The documentary shows how Museveni changed the country’s constitution in order to be able to run for the 2021 presidential elections, and the violence used to threaten and stop anyone who opposed him.