Tag: Uganda
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SFF 2023: “People Power, Our Power” — The pop star fighting Uganda’s regime
This review is part of Tharunka’s continued coverage of the 70th Sydney Film Festival. Read the rest of the reviews here. When celebrities engage too closely with politics, it tends to leave the public either utterly bewildered by their involvement or dismissive, considering it a mere ploy to maintain relevance. However, in the documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s…
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Kony Fever and the Downside of Celebrity Activism
On Christmas day 2008, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, went on a three-day killing spree, massacring over 800 people in the north-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Only a year later, 300 had massacred and 250 abducted, including around 80 children. By last June, the LRA had…