Two days before the BAFTAs, in a quiet drawing room of the Soho Hotel, in London, I met with one of Uganda’s biggest pop stars, the pacifist politician Bobi Wine. He was accompanied by his wife, Barbie Kyagulanyi, and the first-time director Christopher Sharp, whose documentary, Bobi Wine: The People’s President, has been nominated for best documentary feature in this year’s Academy Awards.
Filmed in Uganda over five years, it tells the compelling story of how an orphan who talks with pride of his upbringing “in the ghetto” became a charismatic musician worshipped across the African continent.
