Robert Kyagulanyi, the president of the National Unity Platform (NUP), has flown out of Uganda 17 times over the last 12 months.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!An analysis of his trips by Bbeg Media shows that 12 of those trips have been related to promoting his documentary; Bobi Wine: The People’s President and gala and fashion awards.
The documentary about his struggle to remove President Museveni was nominated for an Oscars award this month. Trips related to this documentary took him to several countries and cities, our analysis shows.
Trips directly related to his political mobilization within this period are five which include meetings in Canada, Poland, Denmark, Holland and the US where he met the different NUP diaspora chapters and attended political meetings.
There have been some months when Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine has not travelled out of the country like in August 2023, which he spent on his mobilisation countrywide tours.
Bbeg Media relied on Kyagulanyi’s twitter posts and media reports to compile this information.
There has been criticism from some quarters about Kyagulanyi’s frequent trips abroad. His critics have often said that he spends more time out of the country than within, affecting the momentum of the struggle to build pressure that will topple President Museveni.
But Kyagulanyi has countered that he needs to make some of these travels to mobilise international support and draw global attention to Museveni’s misrule.
Yet on the whole, he has spent more time in Uganda in the last one year, contrary to what some of his critics say.
Here are Robert Kyagulanyi’s trips in the last one year:
March 2024
- Cape Town, South Africa to attend a meeting of political and civil society leaders
- California (US) to attend the Green Carpet Fashion Awards
Febraury 2024
- New York to attend the launch of his documentary on NatGeo
- London, UK to attend the Bafta awards
January 2024
- New York to attend the Cinema Eye Honors 2024.
December 2023
- Berlin-Germany, to attend a forum on democracy
- London, UK to to attend the screening of his documentary at Bertha DocHouse theatre.
November 2023
- Netherlands to attend NUP European Diaspora Chapters meetings.
- New York, US to attend the screening of his documentary
October 2023
- Nairobi, Kenya for the screening of his documentary in Prestige Cinema Nairobi
September 2023
- Johannesburg, South Africa to meet Ugandan community there
- Washington DC, US for the NUP Diaspora Convention 2023
July 2023
- New York for the premiere of his documentary
June 2023
- Gdansk, Poland for a meeting of opposition leaders and freedom fighters from all over the world.
May 2023
- Copenhagen, Denmark to attend the Copenhagen Democracy Summit.
April 2023
- Nairobi, Kenya to attend meeting on democracy
- New York, US to meet various leaders
March 2023
- Germany to attend a meeting of NUP diaspora