When the Kyadondo East seat fell vacant in 2017, Bobi Wine answered the call, storming to Parliament in ‘’bad man style’’. Wine, who had been drunk with music all his life, now found a new addiction – politics – and even gave the presidency a stab in the 2021 General Election, coming second after President Museveni. However, politics seems to have warped his music career with his shows cancelled numerous times.
Bobi Wine during Kyarenga concert in 2018
When legendary South African popstar Yvonne Chaka Chaka called Bobi Wine “My Nelson Mandela in Uganda” in 2018, she sounded extravagant.
At the time, Mr Robert Kyagulanyi, better known by his stage name of Bobi Wine, was just a year into his tenure as a Member of Parliament.
But Chaka Chaka was clear about her vision: “It’s time for young people to take over; the old guard are messing up,” Chaka Chaka said at Kampala Serena Hotel as she held Bobi’s hand.
“You are my hero; and you have to be the hero of those young ones. Don’t fail them. All they want is hope, for tomorrow,” she told an attentive Bobi.
Bobi’s magic was his ability to spontaneously persuade the young and the poor—who are the majority—into politics with a sense of “Yes We Can,” mostly through his revolutionary music.
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