The COVID-19 pandemic struck when Uganda was in the middle of an acrimonious campaign season, in which longstanding president Yoweri Museveni was being challenged by Bobi Wine, a reggae singer turned politician. When Museveni imposed a strict lockdown, musicians sympathetic to Wine responded with songs about COVID-19 that challenged the government’s short-term, biopolitical demarcation of the national emergency. Pier and Mutagubya interpret a selection of Ugandan COVID-19 pop songs from 2020, considering in musical-historical perspective their various strategies for re-narrating the health crisis.

乌干达正处于激烈的竞选季期间，COVID-19 大流行爆发，长期担任总统的约韦里·穆塞韦尼 (Yoweri Museveni) 受到雷鬼歌手变身政治家博比·怀恩 (Bobi Wine) 的挑战。当 Museveni 实行严格的封锁时，同情 Wine 的音乐家们用关于 COVID-19 的歌曲回应，这些歌曲挑战了政府对国家紧急状态的短期生命政治划分。Pier 和 Mutagubya 诠释了 2020 年乌干达 COVID-19 流行歌曲的精选，从音乐历史的角度考虑了他们重新讲述健康危机的各种策略。