A week before Bobi Wine and his wife Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi received word that their documentary "Bobi Wine: The People's President" had been nominated for an Academy Award, the Uganda government placed them under house arrest.
The documentary follows Wine through his campaign to unseat Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in Uganda's 2021 presidential election, who has been in power for nearly four decades. Museveni’s military police arrested Wine many times over the years on charges related to his political and social activism, first as an artist, and more lately as the opposition’s leader. But after "The People's President" received an Oscar nod, he says the military withdrew from his family's home.
