Kampala

She's like, "Excuse me, you have a bit of an accent.

Where are you from?" I said, "Oh, um, I was born and raised in Kampala, Uganda." She said, "Oh, m- amazing coincidence.

I just came back from Uganda three weeks ago." And I was like, "Oh, did you enjoy your visit to my lovely home country?" She goes, "Oh, no, no, I wasn't there visiting.

I was there helping out."

This is the BBC World Service, the world's radio station.

In Beijing, Kampala, Sydney, Bali, Andover, Exeter, Truro.

Drama on the World Service.

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It's become something the whole family shares together.

Alex, who listens to us in Kampala, Uganda, wrote in and said, "It's a blessing to listen to Twenty the Countdown on Radio ABC in Uganda.

The songs always bring healing to my soul." Then he added, "I used to enjoy the show alone, but now my entire family listens every Saturday, and my sister Vicky has taken over the time reminder role." [laughs] That's an important one there, Vicky.

Don't mess this up.

It's time to call.

My name's, um, Jamal Yusuf.

I do listening in from Uganda, Kampala.

I've been listening in for almost two years per now, and I'm still listening in because I enjoy the worship, I enjoy the music.

No, no, not a villa.

Here, here in, in Kampala-

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... where they call, like, a committee that was supposed to be working on-

They're not formalized in the way that European train networks are, but they're dense and they work.

You can get from Nairobi to Kampala by bus.

It takes all day, and you'll be sitting next to someone's chickens, but you'll get there.

Someone's chickens.

So you're now beginning to hear a lot of noises about how raw materials should be transformed into finished goods and then sold without thinking through how the process should start and end i mean nobody is discussing for instance how much power is required for you to do the transformation the nature of skills you're talking about Hello folks, welcome to this week's edition of the Bad Natives.

My name is Robert Kaushenga, the Bad Native who lives in Kampala, Uganda.

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In fact, Kenya has one of the lowest taxes.

So if the government stopped these very extortionate taxes, prices would then begin to charge things like $50.

between Kampala and Etepe.

And the argument is that, actually, if we fix that, if we fix price, then even badly run airlines will actually make profit.

But Husna's story didn't begin with cameras or crowds.

It began quietly in a pool in Kampala, with a child learning how to belong in a world that often failed to reflect her.

Long before the medals,

Husna had to learn who she was, not just as a swimmer, but as a young African girl with one arm, navigating a society that didn't always know how to welcome her.

But she kept showing up.

At four in the morning, in the classroom, in the pool, and eventually on the international stage.

From Kampala to Tokyo, her story is not simply about winning medals.

It is about what happens when opportunity meets determination.

Generally, there is that part of Uganda that is lived by different people.

Let's say it's when you're in Kampala in the thick of it, you're angry and confused about work.

There's people just relaxing in the jungle and having that time of their life.

Being in Buindi, or rather before I get to that story.

There's a rural area of it.

And he said that most people doing what he does, most people who are medical clinical officers will go to Kampala and they'll live in the city and they'll work in a hospital there because you make more money.

And he doesn't do that.

And I think that's what's so important is that when you have a single individual on a single base, doing something astounding for his community, you want to try to support their work as much as possible.