tina musuya

While South African musicians sang songs of revolution to extricate the nation from the fangs of white apartheid, Ugandan musicians are gathering themselves to whitewash the atrocities of the rogue regime for crumbs. If you cannot use your talent in this moment to speak against the rampant and systematic kidnaps, torture, corruption and the entire bad governance, then the talent is in the wrong hands and throats. Using the talent to sing or write to rubberstamp atrocities simply because your stomach is empty means that your head is empty as well. That is where @HEBobiwine, King Saha, Nubian Li and other revolutionary musicians defeat you, and you wonder how they are loved by millions of oppressed Ugandans, yet you can do the same and we sing ourselves to freedom. Whenever you see an artiste, artist, musician, writer et cetera using their talent to heap encomiums onto the senile despot and calling it freedom to associate, to support whomever they want, that is not freedom but stupidity. You cannot praise the chains that are digging into my legs and arms and call it freedom. Freedom of choice and association does not mean freedom to propel what is oppressing the nation. @kizzabesigye1 was kidnapped from Kenya and smuggled into a kangaroo court, transferred to civil court and denied bail, remains in prison because he is determined to remove the government that has created a hell for us, and you begin to sing for a despot responsible for denying his liberty? Are you stupid? Sam Mugumya was recently kidnapped and made to disappear, despite many habeas corpus subjiciendums ordering his release, and these have been disrespected by his captors—and you go around singing for the same captors while calling it your freedom? Are you stupid? A son of despot @KagutaMuseveni has several times boasted that he is holding NUPians in his basement, torturing them, and you start supporting and singing for such people while calling it freedom? Are you stupid? There must be a special maggot that squirms inside the heads of people who support this regime. You can support an ideology, but you have no right to support torture. Torture is not an ideology but backwardness and barbarism. If you cannot call out a despot for embodying barbarism and backwardness, then you do not belong to this civilisation. And you find Ugandans who still support such musicians! When your head is empty, your stomach empty, your pockets empty, stop and ask yourself why. The moment you see who’s responsible for your emptiness, you’ll stop accepting crumbs from their table and begin to BANG the same table.