A court in Uganda has convicted a 21-year-old Tiktoker, who campaigned for the public flogging of President Yoweri Museveni on the short-form video hosting service, TikTok. Emmanuel Nabugodi, who created a video depicting a mock Museveni trial, faces up to seven years in prison for “spreading hate speech” against the Head of State. Nabugodi pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was …

There’s a trending video from nine years ago. If you watched it casually, you might in fact think that it was done yesterday. It was a clip of Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, narrating what happened in 2014 when a delegation of African heads of state was asked by AU to mediate the Libyan crisis at the time. Museveni’s account of …