An online – Twitter poll – will in addition to our in-house poll lead to the crowning of our personality of the year – January 1, 2019. Before joining politics, Bobi Wine perhaps thought he could effect social change through his music. Wine had Kampala whining for the better part of 2018, his red beret movement and ‘Ghetto President,’ labels clearly irked the powers that be. Then came the Arua by-election which the ruling National Resistance Movement, NRM, was forced into after its MP was assassinated. Wine and aspiring MP were among over thirty persons detained over the violence.

Source: Ethiopian News December 20, 2018 05:15 UTC