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, Yowari Micevani, has not been able to ignore.

You're worried they say it was your birthday yesterday.

How bitterly sad a day.

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 say

for work.

But we have left this language unbleaved because this episode is all about the art of the

inappropriate and the role of instability and put downs in politics in a country that

prides itself on being highly proper.

And we're 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, Esitari.

Yowari, they say it was your birthday yesterday.

How painfully ugly a day.

I wish the life-filled bush of dirty, pubic hair, overgrown all over Esitari's unwashed

chuchu had strangled you at birth.

Angled you, just like the long tentacles of corruption you sowed and watered into our

bleeding economy.

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