Bobi Wine Encourages Ugandans To Read More Books As A Way Of Freeing Their Enslaved Minds

Bobi Wine Encourages Ugandans To Read More Books As Way Of Freeing Their Enslaved Minds

Posted by: Andre Reagan in Life style July 5, 2021

NUP president and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu aka Bobi Wine came out yesterday to task his followers and fellow Africans to read books.

It’s a public secret that reading is a window to information of what’s happening in the world or what happened and what to expect. Reading throughout history has proven to be a great social, political and economic tool for changing the world.

It was no wonder that some leaders banned books that apparently contained information which was a threat to their leadership. Books have generally generated a number of revolutionaries in the world who have gone to achieve acclaimed fame and success in the world.

This prompted the former Kyadondo East legislator to task his followers to make sure they read a book once in a while. Bobi Wine said that people have to come out and disprove the long planted thought that said if anything is to be hidden from an African, then a book is the perfect place to keep it.

This was due to the illiteracy and conservatism of a majority of Africans in the past generations.

Kyagulanyi also went ahead to share a number of books he felt that some of his followers might take interest in to read.

He encouraged them that despite their busy schedule, reading would help to free their minds that might be enslaved.

“I continue to encourage friends and comrades to find time and read books. We must defeat the saying that if you want to hide something from an African, put it in a book! So today, I shared a list of 10 books which I’ve found insightful for friends to read over the next 6 months.” Bobi Wine posted.

Most of the books he recommended were revolutionary books. However, this is no surprise due to his political career.

Here is the list;

1. Animal Farm (George Orwell)

2. The autobiography of Malcom X (Malcom X and Alex Haley)

3. Constitutional and political history of Uganda (George W. Kanyeihamba)

4. Roots of instability in Uganda (Samwiri R. Karugire)

5. Red Notice (Bill Browder)

6. Betrayed by my leader (Rtd. Maj. John Kazoora)

7. Another fine mess: America, Uganda and the war on terror (Hellen Epstein)

8. From dictatorship to democracy (Gene Sharp)

9. The correct line? Uganda under Museveni( Olive Kobusingye)

10. The struggle for freedom and democracy (Miria Matembe).”

Bobi Wine is currently in the US for a three week working trip that is slated to end on the 10th of July.

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