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GREGORY WARNER, HOST:
You're listening to ROUGH TRANSLATION from NPR. I'm Gregory Warner. And today, a story from Uganda about a woman who has elevated insults to an art form that even the president of her country, Yoweri Museveni, has not been able to ignore.
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STELLA NYANZI: Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday - how bitterly sad a day.
WARNER: Now, before we go further, a language alert - this episode includes language that is vulgar and is sexual in nature. It is by far the most explicit episode I have ever worked on. It might be the most graphic thing in your podcast feed right now. And so it goes without saying, some of you may not find this appropriate for kids or safe for work. But we have left this language unbleeped because this episode is all about the art of the inappropriate and the role of incivility and put-downs in politics in a country that prides itself on being highly proper and where being seen as vulgar can have severe consequences, which brings us back to this birthday poem about the president's birth to his late mother Esteri.