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Radio 4,21 Dec 2018,14 mins

My Sister Biira by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Short Works

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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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