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Rebecca Tapscott

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Lecturer, University of York

Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, on the campaign trail ahead of Uganda’s 2021 general election. Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

January 16, 2024

Uganda’s battle for the youth vote – how Museveni keeps Bobi Wine’s reach in check

Rebecca Tapscott, University of York and Anna Macdonald, University of East Anglia

Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.

Police officers cordon off a crime scene in Kampala, Uganda, in 2021. Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua via Getty Images

April 10, 2022

How the Ugandan state outsources the use of violence to stay in power

Rebecca Tapscott, University of York

Uganda uses unpredictability to combine democratic institutions with authoritarian power.

Ugandan activist and writer Stella Nyanzi outside a Kampala court after a ruling in her favour against President Yoweri Museveni Sumy Sadurni/AFP via GettyImages

May 14, 2020

Naked protest: how ordinary citizens reveal truth to repressive regimes

Rebecca Tapscott, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

When protesters strip naked to amplify their political voice, it is often a last resort within very restrictive regimes.

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