Documentary offers a new lease of life to Bobi Wine

When the Ugandan musician turned-politician Bobi Wine ran for president, his 2020 campaign was thwarted by violent crackdowns by Yoweri Museveni's regime. When the Ugandan musician turned-politician Bobi Wine ran for president, his 2020 campaign was thwarted by violent crackdowns by Yoweri Museveni's regime.

- Alice McCool

Since the election, Bobi Wine - whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu - and his wife, Barbie, say that, from phone tapping to abductions of his supporters, things have been "pretty much the same" in many ways.

With one key difference: the release of the feature documentary Bobi Wine: The People's President.

Shot over five years, the film is a profile of Wine's rise in politics and his run for the presidency, during which he endures military detention, torture and the loss of people close to him.

The film was nominated for a Bafta and is up for best documentary feature at the Oscars.

Moses Bwayo, the co-director, said: "The morning the Oscars nomination was announced, Bobi and Barbie and their children had been under house arrest for over a week. But when the news came, the military and the police withdrew from their home."