Growing up in a slum outside Kampala, Uganda, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu didn’t imagine he would one day become the voice of a global movement. What he did know was that for conditions to improve in his struggling city, he would need to call attention to the poverty, strife, and oppression its residents felt.
“Somebody had to speak for us,” he said, matter-of-factly. “People thought I had the loudest voice.”
Kyagulanyi’s desire for change catalyzed his political advocacy and the breakout of his music career under the stage name…
