Philly Lutaaya: Popular music and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Uganda

摘要

This tribute traces the life and times of the late Philly Bongoley Lutaaya, a Ugandan musician renowned for his campaign against HIV/AIDS in Uganda and for making a contribution to the revival of Ugandan popular music in the post-civil war era. By unveiling his HIV-positive status at a time when AIDS patients were ostracized, Lutaaya used his stature to mobilize consciousness around the epidemic. He gave a human face to living with AIDS and helped to counter the perception of the disease as a monstrous thing, suggesting that even a city-based social icon was not immune to problems that someone in the village could have.