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Shaz & Juma


Juma, a Ugandan white-water-rafting instructor, met Shaz, a English education professional, when she floated down the nile on his raft. They have won awards as a local pop star duo, with Shaz singing in Juma’s mother tongue of Lusoga. With their relationship on stage and on view, responses have ranged from Ugandan men asking Juma, Can you get me one of them?, to Shaz’s own family assuming that Juma wore tribal dress and lived in a mud hut. Their four year old daughter has just become a big sister.

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