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Bobi Wine’s run at the presidency in 2021 had appeared to present an unprecedented threat to Yoweri Museveni’s longstanding rule.
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Reader, Development Economics in Africa and Director, African Leadership Centre, King's College London
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Associate Professor, Global Development, University of East Anglia
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Research Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Johannesburg