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    'People Power' in Uganda: The lawyer promoting a pop-star candidate

    Oct 20, 2020 4 minutes
    Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine, gives an interview at his home Aug. 13, 2019, in Magere Village outside Kampala, Uganda. Mr. Wine is running for president in 2021 in opposition to President Yoweri Museveni.

    Lina Zedriga thought she was done with politics. As a lawyer and activist, she had fought for women’s voices to be heard everywhere in Uganda, from land disputes to peace negotiations to parliament. And now she wanted to go home to the north. Become a catechist. Keep goats. Rest.

    One day in February she changed her mind.

    Bobi Wine was in court in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, accused of organizing an illegal protest. The singer-turned-politician, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, is the leading opposition candidate for president in elections early next year.

    Ms. Zedriga, who was there to watch another case, saw Mr. Wine leave the courthouse into a throng of raucous fans. Suddenly the police fired tear gas. Elsewhere that day one

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