One Mic, One Man, One Mission: How Moses AK Gumisiriza Became the Sound of the NRM, PLU

Kampala, Uganda There is a particular kind of man who does not find his calling, his calling finds him. It arrives unannounced, usually disguised as something ordinary: a borrowed microphone, a small studio, a crowd that goes quiet when he opens his mouth. For Moses Gumisiriza  aka Moses AK, the calling arrived in the highlands of southwestern Uganda, in a district called Rukungiri, where the hills are ancient and the mornings carry the smell of rain even when there is no rain coming. He was just a boy from those hills when he first wrapped his hand around a microphone and