Where has the freedom to create music gone?

Ugandan musician turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi, alias Bobi Wine, is arrested by police on his way to a press conference held to announce the cancelation of his show at Busabala on April 22, 2019. PHOTO | BADRU KATUMBA | AFP

If music be the food of love, play on.'' This is the first line of the play Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare where the speaker is asking for music because he is frustrated in courtship; he wants an abundance of love so that he may lose his appetite for it.

But music goes beyond an expression of frustration in romantic love.