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Peter Jennings narrates the story of Philly Bongoley Lutaaya and how he inspired his fellow Ugandans to fight the spread of AIDS before his death from the disease.
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00:00:23Africa. This is the place where AIDS has hit hardest. This is also where a generation is threatened by the disease.
00:00:38It's not a joke. AIDS is with us. For anyone who discovers that he is positive, please keep the virus to yourself.
00:00:47Tonight, the story of a man who had the courage to say what no one wanted to hear.
00:00:54And who found the strength to make one last journey home.
00:01:01Born in Africa.
00:01:02From the network of public television stations, a presentation of KCTS Seattle, WNET New York, WPBT Miami, WTVS Detroit and WGBH Boston.
00:01:23This is Frontline with the AIDS Quarterly. A special report.
00:02:28Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure at home and gratitude to call upon Philly Lutaya in Gordon, Africa!
00:02:46In April 1988, Philly Lutaya returned home after four years of political exile in Sweden
00:02:55and instantly became the Bruce Springsteen of Uganda
00:02:59with a song a new generation embraced as a national anthem.
00:03:03After 20 years of struggling as a third world musician, Philly Lutaya had finally reached the pinnacle of his career.
00:03:23He was now Uganda's number one pop star.
00:03:34The only visual record of Lutaya's sold-out concert tour was made by a fan on home video.
00:03:40But his new hit song, Born in Africa, could be heard all across the country.
00:03:46Oh, the great priest that's preaching his story
00:03:56He's a black man, a great country who's talking all over the land
00:04:02He's a black man, a great country who's talking all over the land
00:04:07He's out and home, he's a decoding all over the land
00:04:13He's a black man, a great man, a great man
00:04:17He's a black man, a great man
00:04:19He's a black man, he's a black man
00:04:20He's a black man, a great man
00:04:20Uganda was once called the Pearl of Africa
00:04:23A fertile land where no one went hungry
00:04:26But Uganda has just emerged from a 20-year nightmare of civil war and political murder
00:04:32that killed a million and a half citizens
00:04:34The savage regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote
00:04:39had also crushed economic and intellectual life
00:04:42and 750,000 Ugandans, including Philly Lutaya, had fled their homeland.
00:04:51It wasn't until 1986 that peace finally began to settle on Uganda.
00:04:58And when Philly Lutaya returned with his song,
00:05:01it symbolized for Ugandans the reawakening of hope and pride in their country.
00:05:12After his triumphant Born in Africa tour,
00:05:24Philly Lutaya returned to Sweden to continue his recording career.
00:05:28It was there that mysterious ailments which had plagued the singer for months were finally diagnosed.
00:05:35He had AIDS.
00:05:36I was very much afraid.
00:05:38I knew I was in big trouble.
00:05:40I thought about my future, my past, and I felt so alone.
00:05:47I decided to come out, if it is possible for me, to launch a campaign,
00:05:54a crusade against AIDS, whereby some of my fellow human beings might be saved.
00:06:02Back in Uganda, Philly's older brother, A.K. Lutaya, a conservative Kampala businessman
00:06:09and former captain of the national cricket team, was shocked by Philly's plans to go public.
00:06:15Most people here, when they realize they have run into this sort of problem,
00:06:23the AIDS disease is taken as a harsh matter.
00:06:29When you catch it, you should withdraw from public eyes,
00:06:33and eventually disappear, you know, you die quietly in some remote corner of some village place.
00:06:41Nobody knows how many Ugandans have died quietly of AIDS.
00:06:47But in this country of 16 million, an estimated 1 million are now infected with the virus,
00:06:54and at least 10,000 have full-blown AIDS.
00:06:57In Uganda, as elsewhere in Africa, AIDS is primarily a heterosexually transmitted disease,
00:07:04and the infection rate is evenly divided between men and women.
00:07:09Despite the toll, AIDS had been a taboo subject in Uganda, a shameful secret.
00:07:17And then on April 13th, 1989, Philly Lutaya became the first prominent African
00:07:23to publicly declare he had AIDS.
00:07:26Mike, this is your office calling.
00:07:29Philly's manager in Uganda was Michael Doherty,
00:07:32a Californian who had settled in Kampala in 1979 during the Civil War.
00:07:38He had married a Ugandan woman, and they had two children.
00:07:42Over the years, the expatriate businessman had become one of Philly's closest friends.
00:07:48We were monitoring the press.
00:07:50It was a bombshell.
00:07:52It was a big story.
00:07:53And the first day was handled with dignity.
00:07:59Uganda's famous musician has declared he's an AIDS victim.
00:08:05The coverage was compassionate.
00:08:07It was straightforward.
00:08:09You know, that was it.
00:08:10However, day two, day three, the story changed completely.
00:08:16The story now was that Philly's announcement was just a publicity stunt to promote sales of his records.
00:08:22I personally knew that Philly wouldn't lie.
00:08:26He would have left music if he wanted to make money.
00:08:31Alex Makulu had been Philly's friend for 20 years.
00:08:34And I know we were together.
00:08:37We used to go without food one day, two days.
00:08:44You know, but he never left music for money.
00:08:47At the World Health Organization office in Entebbe,
00:08:51Ajuwamana watched the controversy swirling around Philly and saw an opportunity.
00:08:56In the U.S., you had the, uh, um, Rock Hudson has come out.
00:09:03Um, many other people who had, who have had the disease came out to talk about it.
00:09:08In Uganda, we have not been fortunate.
00:09:11In fact, on the African, on the African scene, um, we have not been that fortunate to get prominent people, uh, to talk about the disease at all in, in a personal way.
00:09:23But when Mrs. Amana went to visit Philly, she found him badly shaken by the negative publicity.
00:09:30And he was really feeling sorry that he had come out to say this.
00:09:37And basically, my message to him was that, I'm sorry, it's not enough.
00:09:42That if you want these newspapers' articles to stop, then show them why you declared.
00:09:49Do something.
00:09:51Today is exceptional.
00:09:52It was a privilege, privilege, for the first time in this country, to have a real example of an AIDS victim who has astounded us.
00:10:03Philly Lutaya decided to fight back.
00:10:06At Makere University, the most prestigious in East Africa, he put his case.
00:10:11I stand before you, a living example of an AIDS victim.
00:10:19I have AIDS, and I've been told that my days are normal.
00:10:24I beg you, give AIDS victims love and understanding.
00:10:28Don't deserve us.
00:10:30Remember, if you do not take care, you too can still be showing the rank of the AIDS victims.
00:10:36The speech was risky.
00:10:40Philly's advisors feared he would encounter skepticism and even hostility.
00:10:44But the audience of 5,000 students listened silently.
00:10:48And instead, he found only respect.
00:10:50AIDS is here, but people wanted always to ignore it and pretend as if it was not here.
00:11:00So, I wanted to go on shouting loud about this crisis.
00:11:09I ignored people who were calling me a liar, people who were calling me an opportunist.
00:11:16I knew time would come when they would understand.
00:11:19Philly had returned to Sweden, but his health was now quickly deteriorating.
00:11:35Dr. Per Olaf Persson.
00:11:38He had severe headache.
00:11:40He had severe diarrhea.
00:11:43Was losing weight.
00:11:45He had fever.
00:11:46And he also started to get problems with his legs and feet.
00:11:53Feeling some sort of numbness.
00:11:56And got sores on his soles.
00:12:01And that made it very difficult for him to walk.
00:12:07That's good.
00:12:09You can take a call.
00:12:10He has also been shown to have disseminated tuberculosis.
00:12:18With tuberculosis not only in the lungs, but also in the lymph glands and in the blood.
00:12:26And now, during the summer of 1989, it has been shown that he also has this cytomegalovirus infection.
00:12:34So, in fact, he has had at least five infections or tumors that are included in the definition of AIDS.
00:12:46It had been six months now since Philly's AIDS diagnosis.
00:12:50Despite his physical condition, he was anxious to get back to his music.
00:12:54In a Stockholm recording studio, he started to work on what would become the most important song of his life.
00:13:05Let's go.
00:13:05Well, I wanted to put something down, something musical, artistic, about my feelings and about the feelings of others.
00:13:22What I thought were the feelings of others.
00:13:24It's patient.
00:13:25The feeling of helplessness.
00:13:28The feeling of loneliness.
00:13:29I wanted to express what I felt within myself.
00:13:44Philly ignored his doctor's advice and worked around the clock during two months of grueling recording sessions
00:13:51to perfect the song he called Alone.
00:13:54Yeah, I knew, I felt I was racing against the clock, but it was a matter of time.
00:14:06I had work to be done.
00:14:08There was work to be done.
00:14:09And I had to do it.
00:14:10Out there somewhere alone, I'm frightened.
00:14:31Oh, the darkness, the days are lost.
00:14:37I've been hiding, now I'm making new contacts.
00:14:44Now I'm all loving arms, thrown around my neck.
00:14:51Take my hand now.
00:14:54The recording sessions took their toll.
00:14:58By August 1989, Philly was confined to bed in a Stockholm hospital.
00:15:03He could no longer stand because of open sores on the soles of his feet.
00:15:11But he was determined to return to Uganda with the message that was in his new AIDS song.
00:15:20Philly had agreed to let us film his journey so his story could reach an international audience.
00:15:24But unexpectedly, the Ugandan government rejected Philly's request that he be accompanied by a Western film crew.
00:15:32Having been a bird from being filmed in Uganda had made me more depressed.
00:15:43And I was really, I was down.
00:15:46But I really don't feel that the people of Uganda could do that to me.
00:15:50But this is one of the things which happened to us, small people.
00:16:01We are frustrated always by the big ones.
00:16:04And they forget that they were once small also.
00:16:07Philly appealed to Uganda's Prime Minister, Samson Kaseka.
00:16:17Philly wrote that getting his AIDS message to the world was his dying wish.
00:16:22And a few weeks later, the Ugandan government approved the plan to film.
00:16:27But by now, Philly's doctors feared he might never be able to return to Uganda.
00:16:31A couple of weeks ago, he said that I can't even go to the toilet.
00:16:37I have to take the wheelchair to the toilet because my feet, they are extremely painful.
00:16:43I thought when I saw him a couple of weeks ago that he should never be able to stand on his feet and legs again.
00:16:55I'm a strong man.
00:16:57I don't believe in being weak or anything.
00:16:59But when I decide to do something, I decide to do it.
00:17:03Philly had vowed to himself that he would not return to Uganda until he could stand on his own two feet.
00:17:09And in late September 1989, after six weeks in a hospital bed, Philly Lutaya walked again.
00:17:16Three weeks ago, I thought this would be impossible.
00:17:20It's not due to a lot of drugs.
00:17:22It's mostly due to his will to fight the disease.
00:17:29But I feel like I'm getting my strength back.
00:17:33Yeah.
00:17:33And I'm, of course, I'm a little excited.
00:17:40But I'm going to Uganda.
00:17:41Yeah.
00:17:42I wouldn't dare to talk about the prognosis in terms of months or years with Philly,
00:17:49because he has proven that he can live much longer than we thought from the beginning.
00:17:56So, Philly, how do you feel mentally now?
00:17:59Mentally, I just feel the same.
00:18:01I'm the same man.
00:18:03The same thoughts.
00:18:04And even creating new songs right now.
00:18:11You do?
00:18:12The next day, Philly returned to his Stockholm apartment.
00:18:18A single father, he had custody of his three children, Tina, 14, Tezi, 13, and seven-year-old
00:18:27son, John Lennon Lutaya, named after Philly's musical hero.
00:18:31In my situation, I always feel that in most of the things I do, the things I do, and I
00:18:40feel that it might be my last time to do such things.
00:18:45The schedule for Philly's return to Uganda meant he would have only this one day at home
00:18:50with his children.
00:18:51But, well, this was a call for duty, and there are always sacrifices which one must take in
00:19:07this world.
00:19:15And even here is the news, led by Canary Mitchell, first at the main
00:19:21point.
00:19:23Renowned Ugandan musician Philly Bongo Lutaya is back home.
00:19:27Lutaya is expedient to launch his latest album entitled Alone and Frightened, in which
00:19:33he calls for a collective struggle against AIDS in order to protect those not yet affected.
00:19:41What Ugandans didn't know was that during the flight from Stockholm, the government had
00:19:46suddenly withdrawn its permission for us to film Philly's activities in Uganda.
00:19:51There was no official explanation for the last minute reversal, but Philly's supporters
00:19:57thought they knew why a Western film crew was not welcome.
00:20:01The openness with which Ugandan government had approached the whole AIDS problem also brought
00:20:12about a lot of abuse of that hospitality, that openness by foreign press who came in here
00:20:22and tore the place apart in terms of Uganda is the AIDS capital of the world, of Africa, Uganda is this, all Ugandans
00:20:32have AIDS, Ugandans going out of the country have been subjected to all kinds of humiliation.
00:20:38Health Minister Zach Kihiru led the opposition.
00:20:40Health Minister Zach Kihiru led the opposition.
00:20:44In a letter, the minister explained that since Philly had lived in Sweden for five years, he should
00:20:50not be presented to the world as a Ugandan AIDS case.
00:20:53You see, this is the minister of health and under him we have the AIDS control program and other
00:21:00experts, honestly, surely should have been following enough to know what school boys now do know,
00:21:05ten-year-olds know that AIDS can be, you know, in your system for up to ten years and this is the myopic
00:21:14approach to AIDS, you know, in our backwardness, instead of facing the issue, we are actually
00:21:21interested in finding out where somebody got the AIDS, you know, contact.
00:21:26But Philly also had powerful allies in the government.
00:21:29Dr. Ronald Bata, the Minister of State for Health, believed Philly's visit could have a critical impact
00:21:34on the future of the AIDS epidemic.
00:21:36Dr. Bata knew the projections.
00:21:38In the 90s, the number of cases would increase dramatically.
00:21:42I'm quite sure we're even talking now.
00:21:45Some un-informed Ugandans are making love somewhere.
00:21:50One of them could be positive, another is negative.
00:21:52The disease is being transmitted.
00:21:54So me, I felt that I could come and defuse this tuition for us.
00:21:59That's why I supported him.
00:22:01For tourism, it's my medical profession.
00:22:03We say we should support all patients, even if you know he's going to die tomorrow.
00:22:07And number two is my interest and the big projection of the future in the 1990s.
00:22:13As I've told you, this case was just a chicken stuff.
00:22:18The biggest lot will come in the 1990s.
00:22:20So we are trying to break the transmission.
00:22:23And I think Lutai has done it for us.
00:22:25Two days after our arrival, as Philly dressed for the ceremony to launch his AIDS album,
00:22:35there was some good news.
00:22:37The Ugandan government had decided it would allow the documentary to be made.
00:22:41And to show its support, a prime minister would come to speak at the ceremony.
00:22:46Physically, I feel tired.
00:22:49But I feel spiritually, I'm very much revived just by the fact that we're going to do our film.
00:22:56So my tiredness is likely to go up in the air.
00:23:03Ladies and gentlemen, today's ceremony centers on Ugandan musician Philly Bumbley Rutaia.
00:23:15Rutaia declared in April of this year that he is an AIDS victim.
00:23:24It was a courageous move from this young man who has struggled a good number of years to develop a respectable musical career.
00:23:34Just at the time when the fruits of his labors were beginning to bear, fate steps in.
00:23:41And there's him this terrible blow.
00:23:45Philly, the government of Uganda appreciates your efforts.
00:23:49Right, Honorable Prime Minister, I would like to thank you and the government of Uganda
00:23:58for allowing me to meet one of my final goals.
00:24:03And it will enable me to talk to the entire world before I die.
00:24:08I composed this album with the hope that AIDS victims might find a few moments of solace and comfort from the music
00:24:18and my innermost feelings.
00:24:21The album alone might also make the healthy population of Uganda realize the importance of giving AIDS victims love and understanding.
00:24:32This album I have produced is a labor of love.
00:24:37In my condition, the recording sessions nearly killed me.
00:24:44But I couldn't let up because alone had to be completed as my legacy to Uganda and the world.
00:24:52The young ones and a new generation to protect our love.
00:25:05Let's be open, advise the young ones
00:25:11A new generation to protect and love
00:25:18Hear them singing, playing, laughing
00:25:24Let's give them everything, in truth and love
00:25:32That night, in Philly's old neighborhood bar in Kampala
00:25:40Ugandan celebrated his homecoming
00:25:42and listened to his new song for the first time
00:25:45In this city, where up to 35% of Philly's age group are HIV positive
00:25:54Alone, had a powerful effect
00:26:02Your mother and son, with me and you
00:26:07The sun and the sun and the sun
00:26:11With the sun and the sun and the sun
00:26:17Let's come around, let's start together
00:26:21I want to speak out, not just to sing happy songs
00:26:28I feel like someone who represents common man's status
00:26:36When I talk about such issues
00:26:39It made me happy
00:26:41To bring out what other people could not bring out from within themselves
00:26:48In Uganda, over half the population is illiterate
00:26:59And so music is often the best way to get a message across
00:27:03Alone was an instant hit in Kampala
00:27:06But in order to ensure its success in the countryside
00:27:09where 80% of the population live
00:27:11Philly and two musician friends decided to translate the song into Lugandan
00:27:16Today I'll get the timing
00:27:21Today I'll get the timing
00:27:21Today I'll get the timing
00:27:26Here on the shores of Lake Victoria,
00:27:50Philly found time to relax at a picnic with his friends and family.
00:27:56His mother, Justine Lutaya, a retired headmistress of a primary school,
00:28:02had stood by her son from the time he got sick.
00:28:05Justine Lutaya, a retired headmistress of a primary school, had stood by her son from the time he got sick.
00:28:09There was a huge burden of her son of God and his father and her son of the time,
00:28:18a was the leader of the country and their sister.
00:28:20And he was the leader of the country.
00:28:22When he was a man, I would make his wife a little bit hard.
00:28:26In the early 80s, when ignorance and fear of the disease were high, AIDS severely tested
00:28:47the traditional loving and supportive African family.
00:28:53Many Ugandans with AIDS weren't as lucky as Philly Lutaya.
00:29:00A lot of families were confused. They didn't know what this new disease was.
00:29:08As you know, a lot of our people believe in witchcraft, others don't, and so on.
00:29:14So when a new disease came up, where there was no information about it,
00:29:19they were caught between their own safety and the love to take care of their relatives.
00:29:26And of course, personal safety always came first.
00:29:30And some of them sacrificed their dignity in abandoning their relatives for their own safety.
00:29:37Noreen Kaliba remembers the stigma and the isolation her family experienced during the years her husband Chris was dying of AIDS he had contracted from a blood transfusion.
00:29:49The minute it is even discussed that one might have AIDS, their morality is on the table.
00:29:57And therefore, morality is one that Ugandans essentially hold dear.
00:30:04Majority of Ugandans are essentially God-fearing people and immorality is not associated with God-fearing people.
00:30:14Therefore, the first question that springs to one's mind is, I must keep this.
00:30:19People must not know because if they know, they associate me with immorality.
00:30:25Shortly after her husband's death in 1986, Mrs. Kaliba founded one of Africa's first self-help groups for people with AIDS and their families.
00:30:35Today, the AIDS Support Organization, or TASO as it is known, provides medical and counseling services for 300 clients in Kampala and has branches in two other Ugandan towns.
00:30:48Once HIV enters your house, it never leaves. Even if the individual who is physically infected dies, but the stigma leaves.
00:31:01And you, for quite some time, the children of that family, the people that are closely associated will be, will have, you know, people will whisper about this particular individual.
00:31:13TASO provides food and clothing for its clients and jobs for those unable to work.
00:31:20But it still is one of the only support groups in Uganda and can help only a tiny fraction of those in need.
00:31:27We accept that at least for the time being, there is no cure.
00:31:32But at the same time, we accept and we feel quite compelled to propagate the concept that despite there not being a cure,
00:31:42AIDS is treatable.
00:31:47The knowledge that one is affected or that one has an illness of the magnitude of AIDS cannot be borne by oneself.
00:31:57One requires a lot of support and this is what this counseling is about.
00:32:02A group of TASO clients and their counselors, a few of whom are uninfected volunteers, wanted to meet Philly Lutaya.
00:32:13During his hospitalizations in Stockholm, Philly was isolated from other AIDS patients because of Swedish laws protecting privacy.
00:32:21And so on this day in Uganda, he would meet, for the first time, other people with AIDS.
00:32:28What would you say to all of us here about this stigma?
00:32:32This stigma put to this infection is caused by ignorance.
00:32:41That's why I say that more the population needs more and more education about AIDS.
00:32:49And people are so afraid. They are afraid.
00:32:53So even sometimes if they keep away from you, you don't blame them.
00:32:58I don't blame anyone who tries to do like this, you know.
00:33:03It's natural. It took me a long time.
00:33:06I didn't want to see anyone who is HIV positive or who has AIDS.
00:33:11I didn't know what I would see.
00:33:16I didn't know what I would see and then it could make me feel worse.
00:33:20How did you get the courage to continue working after being told that you were positive?
00:33:25Were you cancelled by someone or it was just a self-determination?
00:33:30The first and the last time I was cancelled was when I was told the result of my blood test
00:33:38because I had gone to the clinic for something entirely different.
00:33:43Then they suspected that there was something.
00:33:47Then they asked me if I wanted to take a test because it's not compulsory.
00:33:52I said let me take the test.
00:33:55So when they told me the result was positive, it was then when there was this cancelling.
00:34:04Were you shocked when you were cancelled?
00:34:07Yes, I was shocked.
00:34:09Yeah.
00:34:10You know, anyone will be because most people think that no, no, no, they can't get AIDS.
00:34:16When you are told you are sick, that you are HIV positive or that you have AIDS,
00:34:24you must know that you can still be very useful to society, to your nation and to yourself.
00:34:35It's not good just to give up and raise your hands and say okay now let me just wait to die.
00:34:44You might wait for five years.
00:34:46Yes.
00:34:47As I told you before that I fell victim in 1987 and since then I have been with Tassel and I am very happy with them.
00:34:58They are taking care of me and they are taking care of my entire family.
00:35:04I don't regret it at all and I am very happy to meet you for the first time and I pray very much to God that he keeps you alive and fit.
00:35:16Thank you very much.
00:35:17Thank you very much, Peter.
00:35:19I don't think I could do what Phile is doing.
00:35:24I believe in the inner powers.
00:35:28He must have inner power because looking at him you can see he is really frail.
00:35:33And he has reached a level where most people that I have worked with in the last two years will just throw their arms up and say no.
00:35:42But to do what he is doing, I don't know, if I were to put to the test, I don't know whether I could really do it.
00:35:49I could have the energy in me to do it.
00:35:52I think it is tremendous.
00:36:03Dede Majoro and Phile Lutaya have been friends since they were six years old.
00:36:12In between Phile's official appearances, they found time to reminisce about their struggles as young musicians.
00:36:19Our parents saw musicians, you know, guitars are taboo, as taboo, you know.
00:36:26Nightclubs were out of bounds, things like that, so anything associated with nightclub to our parents was out.
00:36:37For someone's son to be a musician those days, it was like losing the fellow, you know.
00:36:46And he said a good song, incidentally.
00:36:49Yes.
00:36:58I think he found the only way he could express himself was through music.
00:37:03That's why his songs are always different.
00:37:06There is something unique about Phile's songs.
00:37:12He never was into this music where you sing about love all the time, girls' names and all that.
00:37:19No, no.
00:37:20Say in about ten songs you could find one love song, things like that.
00:37:23Everything else was a comment, you know, his view of day-to-day problems people facing.
00:37:30After a week in Kampala, Phile went back to his native village of Gomba, a tough three-hour drive from the capital.
00:37:57Gomba is a conservative agricultural community, and it had reacted skeptically to Phile's announcement five months earlier.
00:38:06Phile's family had lived here for 45 years, and his late father was the school principal.
00:38:12But Gomba didn't believe Phile had AIDS.
00:38:16The last time Phile had been home, he was in the early stages of AIDS and appeared healthy.
00:38:25I see people coming near to look at me as if they don't believe it's me.
00:38:31Yet, now they believe they know that I'm in big trouble, but there's nothing they can do or nothing I can do about it.
00:38:40Most of the people who have seen Phile believe they quite agree, yes, it has AIDS.
00:38:50Although I've met fellows in the crowds, you know, who still doubt and they say,
00:38:59Look, haven't you seen your brainer, actor, without hair?
00:39:02Phile's hair is like that, it's deliberate, it's been bleached or, you know, whatever it is.
00:39:08After he goes back to Sweden, two months, the hair will grow back and the Phile has earned his money.
00:39:15In fact, I have to confess, because I was among the people who were not really sure whether Phile was telling us the truth.
00:39:25I was thinking that, well, you only wanted to announce.
00:39:28Maybe he had been given something from somewhere to announce that.
00:39:34But just today, I have realized what Phile announced is true.
00:39:43Over the years, the village of Gomba had experienced many anonymous AIDS deaths.
00:39:49But Phile had now given the disease a public face, and the community gathered to embrace its prodigal son.
00:39:56In the church where Phile had been baptized, a special prayer service was held in his honor.
00:40:08We are so pleased this morning for having a dear mother, Mamaltaya, to be here with Phile and the whole family, having come here to pray, to pray with us.
00:40:33But here is a man who is confronted by all that he is confronted with, death, attack of enemies, anxiety, fear of anything.
00:40:49And yet, before him, there is a great and powerful and great God.
00:40:56The God he looks at, the God he looks to, the God he cries to, and he answers.
00:41:06This is the God I believe my brother Phile has known.
00:41:15それは私たちの想像ではあります.
00:41:16My brother, heINKO 三等 diy 20 Mother He vesていた Put名の中でもある。
00:41:18我々娘は貪いたこと、私たちが大きな撷の中で殺人の中ではありました。
00:41:21カロナに向かいに、尺をやり渡ります。
00:41:24My responsibilitiesはいる と思いないように、心態で後悪の中でもいいよ。
00:41:33As my wife,私は私たちがー lordへと考えていただければ、私たちが大きなキ cho自動が多くです。
00:41:36The next day in Kampala, the headlines were not about Philly's poignant return home.
00:42:00In a front page article, an African language newspaper reported that on his way back from
00:42:04Gomba, Philly had secretly visited a traditional healer who treated him with an expensive cure
00:42:10for AIDS. Concerned that thousands of Ugandans might be duped by false reports of a miracle
00:42:17treatment, Philly called a press conference to deny the reports and set the record straight.
00:42:25Mr. Philly, today's issue of Ngabo carried a story that you have received treatment from a
00:42:30traditional healer. Do you have any response to that story? It is a serious crime against humanity
00:42:37to so blatantly mislead the Ugandan people. False reports like this only confuse the people
00:42:43and hamper our battle against AIDS. Medical experts in Uganda and the world over have proven at this
00:42:51time that there is simply no cure for AIDS. Instead of misleading people, we need to stand together and
00:42:58fight AIDS with proper information on prevention and we must look after the AIDS victim among us.
00:43:06We must avoid cheap reporting. Mr. Taya, you noted that in Ngabo, that article really was
00:43:15simply directed to you and you seem to be very bitter about it. What advice would you give to these
00:43:21people to other Ugandans? Most especially AIDS victims who might, you know, be taken by such talk in town?
00:43:30We are free people living in a free state where people, where everyone is free to follow his or her own
00:43:38beliefs. I'm not going to tell, I mean all AIDS sufferers that don't go and to be healed by that woman or that
00:43:46man. But I don't believe them. I don't believe in these cures. Others are, many people have come to me
00:43:58telling me, go, there's a Juju man here, this man is, go there, go there. Okay, I'm very concerned about there.
00:44:07They're concerned, they want me to be healed. But I don't believe in such traditional medicine. I don't know,
00:44:15I don't think it can help me. So I want to be healed. Do you have any inkling as to when,
00:44:22where and from whom you may have contracted this disease? Thank you. I don't.
00:44:31I am not the one to back up, even if it is the most
00:44:38serious, even the last crisis in my life. I'm not prepared to throw in the towel at all.
00:44:43I'll go on fighting. I'll go on expressing the views I believe in. And I'll go on trying to help
00:44:54the people in informing them and trying to answer their queries and everything so that
00:45:02we may keep this epidemic from spreading. Uganda has AIDS. We call it SLIM. And SLIM is with us and among us.
00:45:19And it's only Lutaya that has accepted to show us that it's here and it's up to us to know how to handle it.
00:45:32I'm sure... The chairman of the National Council of Ugandan Women, Victoria Seberica, had invited Philly Lutaya to address an international conference on women's health care.
00:45:43But she ran into opposition from some delegates from other African countries who had never seen a person with AIDS before.
00:45:51When I suggested that Lutaya comes and talks to us, some members felt it would scare our guests.
00:45:59But I hope and I trust that you bear with me that for him it's a big thing to carry, but he's not carrying it for his own sake.
00:46:13He's carrying it for us, for you and me, and for the coming generation.
00:46:19In Uganda, 50% of the AIDS victims are women. Women in Uganda, in Africa, must join the battle against AIDS.
00:46:32When we talk about the battle against AIDS, we must forget blame. Blame is not productive.
00:46:39I know that I contracted the virus from a woman, but I don't blame that woman. That woman was definitely given the virus by a man.
00:46:53I feel women are more cautious and are trying to be as safe, to keep themselves as safe as possible.
00:47:05But with our culture, which we are trying to change gradually, women have in the past been very submissive to their husbands.
00:47:16You don't know who your husband has been with. He comes, you just have to accept whatever he tells you to do.
00:47:27But now I think if a woman, especially an enlightened woman, knows that her husband has been unfaithful,
00:47:37she'll do everything possible not to have anything to do with him until both of them are checked.
00:47:44Changes must be made in our sexual behavior. For the past years, we have been so free in our sexual behavior.
00:47:53Adultery is a serious threat to all of us, and it must stop.
00:47:59Adultery by either sex presents a danger to the other partner and ultimately to the whole family.
00:48:06If we don't work hard, the human race is going to die.
00:48:12The young generation think it's a myth, and they think it's very far, it's very far from them.
00:48:21They think AIDS affect only grown-ups.
00:48:25And my concern is to sensitize and to try and tell the youngsters that it's their age group that is more affected than the 35 and above.
00:48:42The Ugandan government is focusing its AIDS education effort on the 5 to 15 year age group, which is still virus free.
00:48:59From primary school to university, all Ugandan students are regularly instructed about AIDS prevention.
00:49:07But schools across the country were inviting Philly to visit, because they knew he would have an impact on the students they would not forget.
00:49:16I'll make you strong, and I'll help you. I will protect you, and I'll save you.
00:49:30I want to welcome all our visitors to Gayaza High School.
00:49:36We are the oldest girls school in Uganda. I'm proud of it.
00:49:40But particularly today, we want to welcome Mr. Philly Lutaya.
00:49:45We are so grateful that he has given up this time to come and share with us and allow us to sing along with him.
00:49:52Mr. Lutaya, you are very welcome to Gayaza High School.
00:50:03I wish I was just on an ordinary visit here, as I used to come and visit my sister here some years ago.
00:50:13But today I have come to stand before you as a living example of an AIDS victim.
00:50:29This is serious. I never wanted this to happen to me.
00:50:34So, straightforward, I would like to tell you that I would not like this to happen to you, to any of you.
00:50:43The message I would like to give to you is that let us do our best to have a virus-free young generation.
00:50:52It's easy to avoid getting the virus.
00:50:58I beseech you that please be careful in the way you handle yourselves. We need you.
00:51:05I wanted to know what made you decide to tell the world that you had AIDS.
00:51:09Because most AIDS victims don't let it out.
00:51:13I wanted people, having seen me, to know that AIDS can affect anyone.
00:51:22Not only the poor peasants, not only the rich, not only the prostitutes, but it's in all classes.
00:51:34What was the reaction of your family for knowing that you've got AIDS? And what have you done to help them understand?
00:51:43My eldest daughter cried. My second daughter did not cry. She's a tough girl.
00:51:54And my young son, who is only seven years old, didn't understand what was going on.
00:52:00But when I came and told my mother and my brothers and sister here in Uganda, they were shocked.
00:52:08They asked me, are you going to take it? I mean, when I told them that I'm going to go public and tell the people.
00:52:17I said, I will take it. I can't take it. So, they have been with me all the way.
00:52:24On behalf of all the girls, girls at Geyser High School, we would like to thank Philip Bongo Lutaya.
00:52:33And we are very grateful for your presence, for your presence here at school.
00:52:38And we would like to say, we love you. And as a token of our love, we have this small gift for you.
00:52:43Please receive it.
00:52:45Thank you very much.
00:52:46Thank you very much.
00:52:48Thank you very much.
00:53:13In times of joy, in times of sorrow, let's take a stand and fight up to the end.
00:53:26With open hearts, let's stand out and speak up to the world.
00:53:33We'll save some life, save the children of the world.
00:53:37The highest rate of HIV infection in Uganda is found among women aged 18 to 24.
00:53:48And if they are poor and unemployed, they are particularly vulnerable.
00:53:54Many older men are having relationships with younger women because they feel that women, their own age group, are already infected.
00:54:02And so they go after the younger one.
00:54:04So you may have a situation where one man may be infecting a few of these young women.
00:54:09If a woman doesn't have enough to eat or doesn't have enough money to get all the nice clothing and things that she needs,
00:54:23and a man can offer it to her, a lot of these young women will go for it.
00:54:28This is the key message that we're passing on to women, be it rural or urban, that whatever you're doing, be proud of it.
00:54:41Earn a living for yourself, because one mistake can end your life.
00:54:45At his headquarters in the Kampala Sheraton, Philly was receiving hundreds of requests from Ugandans who wanted to meet him in person.
00:54:57One special request was from Philly's travel coordinator, Eddie Masoki.
00:55:02His brother Vincent was dying of AIDS and wanted to meet his idol.
00:55:07Vincent had endured a difficult two-hour journey from his village where he had been a schoolteacher.
00:55:11As they talked, Philly discovered that they were the same age, but that Vincent had been sick for two years longer.
00:55:20When I see my fellow victims, it's just like looking at myself.
00:55:26I know they have gone through things I've gone through.
00:55:28Unlikely, no one has ever told us what experience it is to die.
00:55:36But if you know that you're going to die, two days better, what not do it so much?
00:55:44Of course, you regret the friends you're living behind, this life.
00:55:48I mean, the material things in the world.
00:55:51But you cannot just put on a sad mask and say that I'm going to die.
00:55:55You know, that's my opinion.
00:55:57I would try to live a happy life as much as possible.
00:56:03Happy birthday to you.
00:56:08Happy birthday to you.
00:56:12Philly Lutaya turned 38 on October 19, 1989.
00:56:18Happy birthday to you.
00:56:21Before the party, he had privately discussed the arrangements with his brother, A.K.
00:56:25He said, look here, if you can ask my friends, tell everybody, let them not pity me, you see.
00:56:32Let us be friends.
00:56:33When we go to a party, let's drink and enjoy ourselves in a short time.
00:56:37How?
00:56:41With Philly, it's very difficult to cry, you know.
00:56:45Even now, at home, he's sick, he has pain in the legs, but he still comes and gives you just one line of a joke and you feel good, you know.
00:56:58You feel ashamed to kind of feel sad in his face because he's not.
00:57:04In one way, it was the best birthday I ever had in my life.
00:57:19I was in company with so many friends whom I had not seen for a long time.
00:57:23Myself, I was a little sad because, sad and happy, for I had not known whether I would make it to be 38.
00:57:35I've been sick, seriously sick, on and off.
00:57:40And yet, well, I made it.
00:57:42I became 38 years old.
00:57:45And, well, I kept thinking, am I going to celebrate another birthday?
00:57:53I'd like to introduce a very special guest artist tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
00:58:01My friend, my colleague, Philly Bongoley, Lutaya!
00:58:15My friends have made me what I am by appreciating my music.
00:58:19They have made me the biggest star in Uganda.
00:58:23Since his arrival in Uganda two weeks earlier, Philly's fans had been clamoring for him to perform once again.
00:58:41Finally, in an old nightclub haunt, Philly sang a new song he had written about Kampala.
00:58:46I like Kampala.
00:58:57It's a beautiful town, a beautiful city.
00:58:59And I really admire the inhabitants of Kampala, the Ugandans who come from different tribes, different corners of Uganda.
00:59:10And they live together.
00:59:12They have been struggling during the difficult times we've had in our nation.
00:59:18And I wanted to pay tribute to the city of Kampala and its inhabitants.
00:59:23Also, this song Kampala was addressed partly to people who have immigrated from Uganda, who are living abroad.
00:59:33And I was telling them, let's go to Kampala, let's go to Kampala, let's go back to our town, to our country, everything is now okay, let's come and build our country again.
00:59:46So I wanted to sing to the audience, to Kampala, and I'm trying to tell them that people are coming back to Kampala.
01:00:16And that very foot has just gone down, it was very swollen, the whole of it.
01:00:31Philly's feet and legs were still bothering him, but two Ugandan doctors had refused to treat him because they were afraid to touch an AIDS patient.
01:00:40Finally, a compassionate physiotherapist volunteered to help.
01:00:44Philly's experience with the doctors was not uncommon, and the problem was on his mind when he appeared before medical students at Makere University, Uganda's only medical school.
01:00:57I have been told that some doctors in Uganda need to be educated and sensitized towards AIDS patients.
01:01:07At first, I did not believe this.
01:01:10I'm sorry to say that it is true.
01:01:14I know I had to look around just to get physiotherapy when I arrived here from Sweden.
01:01:21In the future, each one of you will have to deal with AIDS on a professional or at least a personal level.
01:01:28Treating AIDS patients is not just giving out drugs and going away.
01:01:33It requires a commitment from medical practitioners.
01:01:38I have been told that over the last 20 years, about 75% of the Ugandan trained doctors have left the country to work in foreign lands.
01:01:49The demand for doctors in some foreign countries is high, so the temptation must be great.
01:01:57But I would ask you to think of Uganda first.
01:02:01Statistics show that there is one doctor for every 37,000 persons in our country.
01:02:07You are needed by your fellow Ugandans.
01:02:11So, do not work out on us.
01:02:15Thank you very much.
01:02:16A shortage of doctors is only one of several crises facing the Ugandan health care system.
01:02:22Its hospitals are crumbling and overcrowded.
01:02:26Most AIDS patients will die without ever being hospitalized.
01:02:30Drugs and basic medical equipment are in short supply.
01:02:32The Ugandan government can afford to spend less than $2 per person annually on health care.
01:02:40For AIDS patients, that means that life-prolonging drugs like AZT are simply not available.
01:02:49Ugandans also cannot afford the major weapon in the battle to prevent AIDS, the condom.
01:02:54Although soldiers, university students, and some people with AIDS receive free condoms from the government,
01:03:02they are just too expensive to become a practical solution to the AIDS epidemic.
01:03:06A lot of people, I think probably about 1% of our population, actually know what is a condom.
01:03:14So if you engage in a massive condom supply and education, it means educating literally the whole population about it.
01:03:24When Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986,
01:03:33he faced the task of rebuilding a country whose economy and infrastructure was in ruins.
01:03:3910% of the population had been killed during the 20 years of civil war.
01:03:45AIDS was just one more challenge in a devastated land.
01:03:49But Museveni soon recognized the disease might become the greatest threat to his nation's survival.
01:03:56And so the Ugandan President became one of the first African leaders to openly acknowledge the AIDS epidemic
01:04:01and understand that the only effective weapon a poor country has is public education.
01:04:08Since then, he's waged an all-out campaign to change Ugandan's sexual behavior.
01:04:14His message, love faithfully and stick to one partner.
01:04:23In Uganda, 92% of the population regularly attend places of worship.
01:04:28And so the country's mosques and churches have become important allies in the President's campaign against AIDS.
01:04:34The Kabuli Mosque in Kampala extended a special invitation to Philly Lutaya, who was not a Muslim, to come and speak.
01:04:47AIDS poses a special danger to Muslims and traditional African societies where polygamy is a widely accepted practice.
01:04:54Philly told his audience he himself had relatives with two or three wives and he felt there was nothing wrong with that
01:05:02as long as all the partners remained faithful to one another.
01:05:06Sex education for Muslim youngsters is not normally encouraged by religious elders.
01:05:12But Philly said that during the current AIDS crisis,
01:05:15teaching innocent children about the disease and its dangers
01:05:18had to become everybody's priority.
01:05:21King's College is an exclusive private school established in 1912 to educate Ugandan royalty.
01:05:35And today it still teaches the children who will become the leaders of tomorrow.
01:05:40When Philly Lutaya, grandson of a Bagandan chief, returned to his former school,
01:05:46it was clear he regarded his campaign against AIDS as an act of patriotism.
01:05:51The parents who will become the leader of the Afrikaans would become the leader of the Afrikaans.
01:05:53Don't ever forget that you are Africans.
01:05:57You are people who were born in Africa.
01:06:01And you must be very proud
01:06:02of being an African.
01:06:07Always identify yourself
01:06:10wherever you may go,
01:06:13identify yourselves as true Africans.
01:06:16the sons and the daughters of our grandfathers who built the glory and the honor on which we
01:06:26are walking now i love uganda most because it's my motherland i see myself i must be very loyal
01:06:35and give all i want to uganda i have found that i always miss uganda and i'm very always very
01:06:42homesick when i'm away from uganda so i decided to give my life to uganda as the campaign entered
01:06:50its fourth week uganda's acceptance of phililutaya had become almost universal but at the country's
01:06:58most important church namarembi cathedral there was still resistance namarembi cathedral is the
01:07:04seat of the church of uganda by and large the pillars of the diocese are quite conservative
01:07:13there were quite a few people in the in the hierarchy so to speak didn't want philly to speak
01:07:21they didn't want him to sing they didn't want his music played inside the cathedral they thought it
01:07:26was a sacrilege or something but bishop mizari kouma uganda's most powerful religious leader
01:07:35had been an early supporter of philly's campaign and he was determined that namarembi cathedral
01:07:40would honor him i'm proud of you thank you very much may the lord give you the strength you need
01:07:45but i must admit that uh bishop uh kouma had the courage to face all the opposition you know you
01:07:56can imagine standing up against the current saying no this has to be done
01:08:05on a sunday in late october philly was invited to address the congregation
01:08:10and he was also permitted to sing a spiritual song he had written called
01:08:14to mizinzi let us worship him
01:08:44later bishop kouma would urge that philly's spiritual song to mizinzi be adopted as an official
01:08:58hymn of the church of uganda
01:09:14the name of the church of the church of the church the church of the church he really
01:09:28was dynzi biblia and his time was founded as an official show that he was the first time we
01:09:33Oh, who's pleasing? Who's pleasing?
01:09:43Alleluia!
01:09:54After the triumph of Namorimbi Cathedral,
01:09:57Philly went directly to the funeral of a close friend and fellow musician,
01:10:01Philly Mutebi.
01:10:15I lost a work comrade as well as a friend.
01:10:20He's been sick for almost two years.
01:10:24But we played together in a Born in Africa show.
01:10:28He was my band leader.
01:10:31So he was my right-hand man as far as musical activities in Uganda were concerned.
01:10:37Have you lost many friends to AIDS?
01:10:40Yes, I've lost more than five friends.
01:10:45But the thing is that most of them, they have died of AIDS not believing it was AIDS.
01:10:54They'll just say that so-and-so has died after a long illness or fever or diarrhea or such things,
01:11:02but they don't like to say AIDS.
01:11:11Philly embarked on his final mission into the Ugandan countryside
01:11:14aboard a government-supplied helicopter that took him into a remote rural area
01:11:18along the shores of Lake Victoria called Rakai.
01:11:23The Rakai district is where AIDS first struck the country in 1982
01:11:28and is the area hardest hit by the epidemic.
01:11:33With HIV infection rates as high as 70%, some villages have become virtual ghost towns.
01:11:50The death toll has been enormous.
01:11:53No Rakai family has escaped the epidemic.
01:11:57My family also, I've got four children have died.
01:12:07Four children have died and also I've got my two people, my brothers.
01:12:12There are two.
01:12:13There are two.
01:12:14Olds have died.
01:12:15Of AIDS, of course.
01:12:19In Rakai, there are now communities populated almost entirely by the young and the old,
01:12:25where AIDS has virtually wiped out the middle-aged generation.
01:12:30Today in Rakai, two out of five children are AIDS orphans,
01:12:35and many cannot even afford the fee of a few shillings to go to school.
01:12:41When Philly last played in one of the many nightclubs in Shotella, Rakai's main trading center,
01:12:47it was during the early stages of the epidemic
01:12:50and the town was a busy commercial stop on the trans-African highway.
01:12:54There is less, I mean, nightclub life,
01:13:01because in those days people were so free.
01:13:04Drivers, I mean, were making that stop.
01:13:08And there were a lot of prostitutes around, a lot of girls, I mean.
01:13:14But now it's a, it's kind of a lonely place.
01:13:20AIDS has now virtually cut Shotella off from the rest of Uganda.
01:13:24And today, outside visitors are a rare sight in the devastated town.
01:13:28Our dear visitors, you are welcome today
01:13:32Oh, this pretty special feasting
01:13:36We thank the Lord who has brought you here
01:13:40Oh, this pretty special feasting
01:13:44Twenty-three thousand children in Rakai have already been orphaned by AIDS.
01:13:56Philly urged the children to learn where their ancestors had come from,
01:14:00so that their family's tradition and history would not disappear forever.
01:14:04As he had everywhere in his campaign, Philly urged the people of Rakai not to condemn the dying,
01:14:10but to give people with AIDS compassion and love.
01:14:14After his speech, a group of local musicians asked Philly to listen to a song they had written about AIDS.
01:14:22About AIDS!
01:14:26The Hands of substitution in Europa
01:14:38First the prophet
01:14:40Since I can every day I come from,
01:14:43In my coming dollars I bring it to my heart
01:14:45For whatever they have grown up,
01:14:48Today I have Whitty weißing,
01:14:49Philly was stunned, the song condemned people with AIDS for their immorality.
01:15:00It was the very attitude he had been campaigning to change and left him wondering whether the
01:15:05shame of AIDS would ever end.
01:15:10Just because you had sex with a lady and then you got infected or such thing, I mean, I don't
01:15:19think one should need to be ashamed of it, it's just the natural course of events, but people
01:15:29don't like to be identified with AIDS, that's that.
01:15:37Despite the ravages of Rakai, in most rural areas of Uganda, where 80% of the population
01:15:43lives, HIV infection rates are still relatively low, and that gives health officials a reason
01:15:49to hope.
01:15:51We can save the country because out of 34 districts, only two districts are pretty bad.
01:16:00The rest is still very much an urban problem.
01:16:06And so I feel that the earlier we can, the speed with which we can control from spreading heavily
01:16:17into the rural areas, the impact there will not be heavy at all.
01:16:23But in Uganda, as it is across Africa, the health of the countryside is threatened by the movement
01:16:30of traffic in and out of the more heavily infected cities.
01:16:36During the early stages of the epidemic, armies moved back and forth across Uganda, and today
01:16:41the Trans-African Highway, which runs through the country from Kenya to Zaire, is regarded
01:16:46by health experts as a transmission pipeline for AIDS.
01:16:51Recently, a large Kampala trucking firm reported that 35% of its drivers were HIV infected.
01:17:00In Jinja, Uganda's second largest city, Philly Lutaya addressed a restless crowd of truck drivers.
01:17:10It was the most hostile audience of his campaign, but the heckling didn't stop him.
01:17:15I've got no secrets.
01:17:17I've got nothing to hide, so I speak out whatever I feel that will help someone else.
01:17:25That's how I was brought up.
01:17:27I never go into trouble by speaking the truth, so I've kept it that way.
01:17:32It was my wish that for the rest of the time I have left, I'll try to speak to people whenever
01:17:43I can, whenever I have any strength.
01:17:46Philly Lutaya's campaign was now in its 28th day.
01:17:51His health was failing, and his doctors told him he must return to Sweden for further treatment.
01:17:57He said, don't desert the victims.
01:18:02Try to give them good morale, try to give them support.
01:18:05Because it's a painful experience, when you know that everything is finished.
01:18:15When you know that all your dreams might never come true.
01:18:19For anyone who discovers that is positive, please keep the virus to yourself.
01:18:26Don't kill other people.
01:18:30Lutai is a very forceful character and dedicated to his nation.
01:18:34He has made tremendous contribution in this fight.
01:18:38We regard him as the greatest Ugandan health educator on AIDS.
01:18:42From what I've just told you, he's a hero.
01:18:46The entrance of Ugandan have died here with AIDS quietly.
01:18:50Lutai is taking a different direction. He's a hero.
01:18:56To honor their hero,
01:19:00500 supporters from every segment of Ugandan society
01:19:04held a candlelight vigil on the grounds of the Kampala Sheraton.
01:19:18During the past four weeks,
01:19:20Philly had traveled the length and breadth of his homeland
01:19:24and had moved the hearts and minds of a nation.
01:19:28Alone unfrightened
01:19:30All the darkness
01:19:34The days are long
01:19:36He brought this from out of a textbook,
01:19:42out of theory into reality
01:19:44for the public to see him,
01:19:46see his family close by,
01:19:48to see his friends close by
01:19:50and that it's alright.
01:19:52It's alright to have AIDS.
01:19:54It's not the end of the world.
01:19:56It's not the end of the world.
01:19:58Give me love
01:20:00Give me hope
01:20:04The ease with which he handled it,
01:20:06the courage which he showed,
01:20:08gave me personally a lot of strength.
01:20:10All I need is love
01:20:12and understanding
01:20:16Lutai has been in Uganda
01:20:20has helped a lot of people
01:20:22not to always connect AIDS with immorality,
01:20:28not to look for faults who brought it,
01:20:30not to blame,
01:20:32but it has taught the Ugandans
01:20:36that one has to be very human
01:20:40to the AIDS victim.
01:20:42In times of joy
01:20:46In times of sorrow
01:20:50Anywhere, you talk about Philly,
01:20:52they no longer look down upon him as an outcast
01:20:56Everybody is in love with him right now.
01:21:00Everybody is in love
01:21:02And speak out to the world
01:21:04We'll say some lies
01:21:06Say the children of the world
01:21:10After people have seen him
01:21:12There is a general feeling of quiet
01:21:16A general feeling of someone needs to reflect
01:21:20It's as if they are actually seeing AIDS with their face
01:21:24Let's be open
01:21:26Advise the young ones
01:21:30A new generation
01:21:32To protect and love
01:21:36Hear them singing
01:21:40Playing, laughing
01:21:42Let's give them everything
01:21:46In truth and love
01:21:50This is only the beginning
01:21:52The end is not in sight yet
01:21:54People will come out and contribute to the fight
01:21:58Until we reach total victory
01:22:04Long time after my times
01:22:08People are going to continue
01:22:12In the end, as in the beginning, the fans came first for Philly Lutaya
01:22:1870,000 people jammed into Kampala's Nakivubu stadium to see their idol perform for the last time
01:22:28It was the largest concert audience in Uganda's history
01:22:32Ladies and gentlemen
01:22:38Bungale was born in Africa
01:22:42And he is proud of being an African
01:22:46And so now he's going to sing to us
01:22:50Born in Africa
01:22:52Hello
01:22:56Hello
01:22:58Ladies and gentlemen
01:23:00I'm giving you
01:23:02The last song
01:23:04I would like to tell you that
01:23:08I'm going back to Europe
01:23:10On Saturday
01:23:12But I'll be back
01:23:14In Uganda
01:23:15In December
01:23:16And if God wishes
01:23:18I shall stage a concert
01:23:20At Lugogo Indoor Stadium
01:23:22Thank you very much
01:23:24Thank you very much
01:23:54Thank you very much
01:23:56Thank you very much
01:23:57On October 28, 1989
01:23:59Philly Lutaya returned to Sweden
01:24:02Where he was reunited with his children
01:24:12Philly clung tenaciously to life
01:24:14But after three weeks in Stockholm
01:24:16He knew it was time to go home again
01:24:18Strapped on a stretcher, he was flown to Uganda
01:24:22And on December 15, 1989
01:24:25He was given his last wish
01:24:27To die in Africa
01:24:30At his funeral in Namarembi Cathedral
01:24:37Thousands of people mourned Philly
01:24:39Uganda's religious and political leaders
01:24:42Eulogized him as a shining example
01:24:44Of the best in mankind
01:24:46But Philly Lutaya preferred a simpler epitaph
01:24:50I was born to sing, to dance
01:24:53And I would die musician
01:24:55That's enough
01:24:56For me
01:24:57Thank you
01:24:59Only
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01:25:22Music is the topic today. Let us throw our worries away. No frontiers, no barriers to trade. Start doing what we choose to do.
01:25:34I was born, born in Africa. Sing my song, music in Africa. I was born to sing, feel the music is in the sound. I was born to dance, feel the rhythm is in the drum.
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