a star turned politician and in uganda 38 year old bobby wine has inspired the younger generations voters were turning out in droves on thursday to have their say in a historic election that saw him face off against president yoweri museveni who's been in power for 35 years or bobby wine started his career addressing social injustices in his songs and he manifests a long tradition of politics through music in africa. to spread good gripes with his music singer from uganda winner of an m.t.v. music award has been a pop star for more than 20 years. his lyrics are political party wine tells it like it is giving a voice to the oppressed in his country. many people are good and they really want to use. their plight because

they are not being but he realized singing wasn't enough to affect real change so 3 years ago bobby wine got into politics to try to change uganda from the ground up now he's running for president trying to topple ury most 70 has been in power for almost 35 years. is a different generation he's a representative of. a representative of the future. the 38 year old musician is popular with the younger generation which makes up the majority of the country almost 80 percent of uganda's population is under 30 bobby wine wants them to fight for their own political freedom. comes to those who fight nor do those who cry because the more you cry is the more your people continue to die so rise and defend. oh right.

bobby one's political message packaged in a 4 minute pop song has been on heavy rotation in uganda for 3 years now the song against fear against corruption against oppression by the state. voted to one. of the i work in the people of uganda and. if people. do go out and vote. have been with over 80 percent because they've been in every part of uganda and it's creates evident that the people of uganda. for a change. president will say vinnie is fighting back government forces have been breaking up campaign rallies prof and beating up protestors or opposition candidates. bottom line has been arrested tortured and charged with high treason. was. not good in the struggle to.

name then a number of times i've been arrested i mean the struggle to be by the 2 grand and before that is accomplished i don't care how many times on my wrist it had just beaten gustafer by sprayed. ok. for now bobby whines fame and popularity are his protection. charismatic bobby wind there challenging 70 in today's election in uganda and scott roxboro has joined me to talk about this tradition of politics through music in africa scott there was a lot of focus in that report on bobby one the politician tell us a little bit more about him as a musician and how he expresses politics that way yeah i mean bob was a fascinating figure i mean as an artist because there's really no gap between his pop and his his his politics i mean he expresses his policies directly through

music on the often writing songs that are direct political messages i mean last year late early last year when the pen damaged the quantifiers pandemic at like any politician bobby wine gave a sort of public safety message to his constituents but he did a different way he actually wrote a song about the safety surrounding the coronavirus and put everything to music ok well let's see if we can just have a listen to that bobby wine on the coronavirus. for starters. i never. done everything. right ever. so i mean this is this is health health messages health balls you can dance to i would be great if every politician did that i mean the anglo american like rap out her health messages or you know we. go into what an intelligent way to get

a very sensible message across and probably one isn't the 1st african musician to actually turn to politics to tell us about a few of the other examples i mean there is a real long tradition across africa really of political activism through music and a number of very popular musicians have done the bobby wine thing and tried to run for office i mean in tanzania you have professor j. he's one of the. biggest star hip hop stars and he's always sort of wrapped against a political corruption against injustice and 2015 you decided to run for parliament and he won he's now a sitting member of the. indian parliament and you have a say across across africa i mean in senegal door you probably know one of the most famous singers in africa and definitely is in senegal i'm also a strong political activist he was sort of blocked from be able to run for

president himself but he supported the opposition and when the opposition can do was elected president he was made a minister he's made the minister of culture tourism for some and also you see that across africa you have these musicians using the power of their music and their and their fame to get across the real place message can take a direct stake in incredible and yet just quickly it's very dangerous obviously for them to be taking a stance like this in so many of these countries the winds really had. trouble with a lot of arrests arrests and beatings and of course it can get even more serious and we saw what happened in ethiopia just just last year the musician who did d.c. who was who was murdered who was who was killed and his his his killing really sparked an uprising against the authoritarian government in ethiopia so you can see these musicians they're not just expressing a political opinion they're taking real personal rest in trying to get their message across but to great effect and we're crossing our fingers obviously for bobby why know that he can affect change there thanks very much scott. well

staying in africa kenyan writer yvonne war is one of her country's most eloquent voices her 2014 novel dust was highly acclaimed and her most recent book the dragon-fly see is both a coming of age story and a lyrical reflection on cultural diffusion and in it she probes the historic links between africa and asia to counter those typical western perspectives of africa's way forward. nairobi. it's home to yvonne idea. of world renowned intellectual voice of her country kenya is on the move with strong support from china which is financing bridges railroads and ports here as part of the new silk road a controversial project for sun. i understand that guess that certain people are extremely worried more worried than we are about china's return to the african

continent and i think we like to see that the sky's about the fall of africa. that's really i think. represents a new opportunity for the african continent. to kind of defy in what it is and where it if they want to be in the world and we who. we are there is on the way to part of an island off kenya's coast 500 kilometers from nairobi. party is the fixed point from which the narrative thread of her novel develops over the world globalization does not appear once in it $600.00 pages it is what the story is about the dragon-fly see the title of the novel is the author's name for this body of water the europeans called it the indian ocean one of many western imposed ideas the author breaks with. a lot of the west they thought we were so they had their mind their fantasy about africa was about our poverty our lack. and they're also

obsessed with our diseases and their greatest vision for us was maybe musky to next china comes in and says. the vision they have. with us is about roots and bridges and ports. i think it was about the scale of vision and quite frankly you know we will go for the truck to go for the attractive offer. into the hardest part of along the way we encounter the shango archaeological site where remnants were found of a mosque that some believe was built during mohammed's lifetime. 'd ruins from the 15th century are better preserved there from a time when a lively exchange with china is said to have existed. but even in kenya these ruins 1st excavated by british archaeologists are largely unknown.

this is a treasure this is not just a canyon treasure it's a world treasure it's an african treasure this site it means that others come into spaces like this and the right to their histories on top of it and then we've got a generation growing up thinking that they have no roots no roots in history. you have people confused thinking that their history only begins when the europeans arrived for example of and that's tragic that's part of the tragedy of africa and the tragedy of the state this column dates from the 15th century. first indicators that you have entered an unusual site is this. a probably a tombstone there would have ceramics from china embedded here this is a over 600 year old site. the character ayana in all wars novels set out

from patter to china unwittingly retracing the. past taken by her ancestors. this is the perfect sports where are you i know would be hiding you know the opening chapter of the book. her novel is also a chronicle of self empowerment written in a in can definitely poetic language. and the dark published new crowds this fleeting being settled on the mangrove southwest coast. conspired with the shimmering. profits traders. women. dream. to close the sad news that fish on the left behind me of the magic magician and roy has died of cancer at age 81 his partner roy horn died last spring from

complications with copd 19 and we'll leave you with some impressions from their better days and with that all the best from us troops. come. close.

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discover who. subscribe to the documentary on you tube. this is g.w. news and these are our top stories but counting has begun in uganda election pitting one of africa's longest serving latest against a young challenge a president where rima 70 is seeking a 6th term in office author rowling for nearly 4 decades his main rival from a pop star bobby why in her.