Moses Bwayo was shot at and arrested while making a film about Bobi Wine, Uganda’s opposition leader
. The result is “Bobi Wine: The People’s President”, a feature-length documentary which was shown at the London Film Festival last month and will be released by National Geographic next year. Making it has pushed Mr Bwayo into exile.
Shot in a fly-on-the-wall style, interspersed with news clips and the occasional talking head, the film follows Mr Wine and his family as he hurtles towards the election. He is arrested and tortured; his supporters are shot dead on the streets. There is never any prospect of Mr Wine being declared the winner of the ballot, however popular he may be. Instead, the story is pulled along by the charisma of the singer and his wife, Barbie. This is a personal journey as much as a political one.
Following Mr Wine put Mr Bwayo in the cross-hairs of the state. Strangers started calling him at odd hours, saying: “We have a project for you.” Unknown men pursued his wife through a shopping mall. Sometimes an army pickup parked outside his house. He was arrested while filming in 2020 and, along with a group of opposition activists, spent several nights in a congested, flea-ridden cell. Security officers looked through his phone messages and confiscated his equipment.
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