Meet Jessy Gita Kasirivu, a musician with Cranes Band, Currently in a love triangle with Idi Amin’s Mistress

A love triangle between a musician, a president and a queen dancer!

The music docudrama ‘Bwana Jogoo: the ballad of Jessy Gitta’ tells the story of Jessy Gitta Kasirivu, a well known Ugandan musician, who, in the early morning of August 4, 1974, gets violently arrested and killed by Idi Amin’s infamous State Research Bureau (SRB) agents.

At the center of Bwana Jogoo is a love triangle between Jessy Gitta, president Idi Amin and Sarah ‘Suicide’ Kyolaba, a then 19 year old go-go dancer. Jessy Gitta is Sarah’s lover when Amin also starts going after her. With deadly consequences.

Old musicians, family members, Amin associates and analysts are piecing the deadly puzzle together of this unresolved murder mystery. Bwana Jogoo unravels a dramatic love story under an intimidating political constellation.

After years of muffled silence, family and fellow musicians are finally lifting a tip of the veil. Will it be possible to find closure with new answers to old questions?

Short synopsis

A love triangle between a musician, a president and a queen dancer, leading to the brutal death of the musician at the hands of Idi Amin’s State Research Bureau henchmen.

Michiel van Oosterhout is a journalist/filmmaker from The Netherlands who lives in Uganda since 2001. He is one of the founding members of Amakula International Film Festival and has written scripts for short and feature films. Most recent feature script was for the Zanzibari film Zamora which won 6 awards at 4 different African film festivals (ZIFF, Fespaco, Khouribga Film festival & Uganda Film Festival). He is an author of several books on Uganda and teaches script writing at Kampala Film School. Bwana Jogoo is his feature documentary director’s debut.

Bwana Jogoo: the ballad of Jessy Gitta

Director Michiel van Oosterhout

Cinematography Cyril Ducottet

Producer DFH Uganda/Freespoken Films

Duration 67 min

Ugandan premiere 16^th July 2019, Club Obligato 19.00 hrs