ARTISTS IN POLITICS
Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine MP/Pop star In Uganda it is inconceivable for most minds to deem music, drama, dance, painting and other arts as a profession. So much so that at Makerere University, one of the highest institution of learning in the country, the former Music Dance and Drama department (MDD) was disdainfully referred to as Musiru Dala Dala meaning “exceptionally dense”. It didn’t help that anyone who failed in other fields was forcibly injected into the MDD faculty hence undermining it further. It is this derogatory perception that brings many to ignorantly assume that artists are incapable of intellectual contribution to an area such as politics. Many forget that artists are continually contributing to important discourses in society using mediums that are accessible to the masses. It is also forgotten that many of us in the arts are actually fully qualified in other fields too. In recent political events in Kampala commentators such as the mutable Tamale Miru