Ugandan artiste telling hard truths

A farm, a swimming pool and a sauna – all full of fresh ripe and beautiful women, for just one man. For the utmost purist, you do not need a lot of effort to hate Abdu Mulaasi, and his seemingly morally bankrupt songs.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Abdu Mulaasi takes to the stage with his queen dancer. Net photo.

A farm, a swimming pool and a sauna – all full of fresh ripe and beautiful women, for just one man. For the utmost purist, you do not need a lot of effort to hate Abdu Mulaasi, and his seemingly morally bankrupt songs. But consuming his entertainment can be like watching a helicopter land. First, you have to bear with the dust, waiting patiently for it to settle, before you can clearly see the chopper.Similarly, if you can look just hard enough to see beyond the at times repulsing mass of flesh exposed in his videos, you just maybe able to notice and pick lessons that the singer is pointing us to.For all his excesses, Mulaasi’s music could as well be a mirror through which Ugandan society can take a look at itself.His anecdotes of a macho superstar lover who is always surrounded by women that he treats like property, could indeed be a form of ridiculing men in society who do just that. Daily Monitor