Uganda, April 23 -- Opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) leader Robert Kyagulanyi (more popularly Bobi Wine by his musician name) just came off a sold-out concert in London where he soaked in the adulation of fans, many of them Ugandans or with Ugandan roots.

On the back of the Oscar nomination and well-reviewed documentary about his political story, "Bobi Wine: The People's President", Bobi Wine has had a good global run, and a good domestic shake too, over the last year.

The idolisation of Bobi Wine by the "People Power" folks is striking, for the similarities and differences, between President Yoweri Museveni in his bush days and the first 10 years of his rule, and Dr Kizza Besigye when he was leader of the Forum for Democratic C...