Even if I vote it will remain as it is, nothing will change.”This slum is where presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine grew up. Ugandan politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, better known as pop star Bobi Wine, speaks to people at Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2018. “If parliament cannot come to the ghetto,” Wine has said, “the ghetto will come to parliament.”In Kamwokya, a group of boda boda motorbike drivers crowd around to speak about their hero. In an average day a boda boda driver makes less than 20,000 Ugandan shillings (€4.18), he says. ‘Free Bobi’ graffiti has sprung up across Uganda over the last two years, referring to presidential candidate Bobi Wine’s numerous arrests.

Source: The Irish Times December 30, 2020 00:56 UTC