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My Sister Biira by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

4 Extra Debut. Aunty Flower is dumped in an asylum but retrieved by her family and returned to Uganda. Read by Babirye Bukilwa.

Aunty Flower is dumped in an asylum but retrieved by her family and returned to Uganda. But it is when Aunty Flower sets eyes on Biira that there is lucidity in her eyes.

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a Ugandan novelist and short story writer. In 2014, she won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story, Let's Tell This Story Properly, and her debut novel, Kintu was published in 2018.

Read by Babirye Bukilwa

Written by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Produced by Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.

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14 minutes

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Fri 10 Apr 202615:45
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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