Robert Kyagulanyi

In defiance of a supreme court ruling, Uganda’s parliament under the National Resistance Movement’s President Yoweri Museveni has passed into law that civilians can be tried in…

It is all of our responsibility to defend brave people such as Uganda’s Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, Agather Atuhaire, Bobi Wine and Kenya’s Kasmeul McOure

The vote will come after one of the bloodiest campaigns in years, as veteran leader Yoweri Museveni seeks a sixth term against popstar-turned-MP Bobi Wine

‘Music is the weapon of the future,’ said Fela Kuti. If so, Africa’s leaders need to arm themselves —and these are the songs they should start with

Having already been detained a number of times, the singer who looks set to challenge President Museveni in the 2021 elections has been arrested

This is a selection of the best stories published in the newspaper’s Africa section this year, in no particular order

This is the show that the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, does not want you to see

There is a strong framework of international laws and conventions that defend free speech, but Uganda continues to limit freedom of expression

Wine, 36, entered Parliament in 2017, and has emerged as a leading critic of President Museveni

The introduction of a social media tax a year ago in Uganda caused an outcry from government critics and rights groups

Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, was scheduled to perform Monday but the much-anticipated show was cancelled by police

Museveni, who seized power at the head of a rebel army in 1986, once said leaders who ‘overstayed’ were the root of Africa’s problems

A Bill removing the limit was signed into law in December 2017 after a chaotic passage through parliament that saw MPS engaging in fisticuffs

Kyagulanyi is among the most prominent critics of Uganda’s longtime President Yoweri Museveni

Ugandan MP and musician Robert Kyagulani, aka Bobi Wine, writes that a united Uganda is snubbing the regime’s divide-and-rule strategy