Join the University of Michigan African Studies Center (ASC) and Donia Human Rights Center for a fireside chat with Honorable Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, widely known as Bobi Wine, a prominent Ugandan Afropop musician, politician, and president of the National Unity Platform, Uganda’s leading opposition party. Holding both a law degree and an associate degree in Music, Dance & Drama, Bobi Wine has received numerous honors, including an Oscar nomination for the documentary Bobi Wine: The People’s President and the 2026 Renew Democracy Initiative “Heroes of Democracy” award in New York. A central figure in Uganda’s pro-democracy movement, he has twice run for president in 2021 and January 2026, facing police and military brutality while conducting his legally mandated campaigns across the country.