Bosmic otim biography of mahatma
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In the north, a different popular singer articulates the people&#;s widespread frustrations and recent memories of violence.
The songs of Bosmic Otim are played across northern Uganda, from buses to bars.
Credit: Liam Taylor.
Garbed in red designer jeans, shirt and a jacket, Bosmic Otim sits under a tree, scrolling through his phone. Every inch the popstar, he is prepared to make us wait. Half an hour later, his entourage show up with a video camera.
Bosmic otim biography of mahatma
They record all his interviews, he says, for “future reference”.
Bosmic, 34, is barely known outside northern Uganda. But here in the Acholi region, he is a superstar, his songs played everywhere from buses to bars.
In , his music became the soundtrack to peace as it returned after two decades of war between the Ugandan government and Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Today, it chronicles the faltering reconstruction with songs of corruption, land, greed and inequality.
“Music is more powerful than the gun,” s