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Girl’s Night Out: A Young Woman Chronicles Her Night in Kampala
Twenty-year-old Jacky Kemigisa lives in Kampala, Uganda. A new BBC series looks at a typical “girls night out” in Kampala through her perspective. The series also includes how Jacky faces unwanted attention from men.
Back Camera
Meet 20-year-old Jacky Kemigisa.
She's studying journalism in Kampala, Uganda but recently for one night she put down her books and headed out on the town to chronicle her night out.
Kemigisa was creating an audio diary out for a new series that aired this week on the BBC, "Girl's Night Out."
The series gives you a glimpse at a typical girls night out from five women in five countries as far flung as Ottawa and Ramallah to Rio and Melbourne.
Listen as each woman explores her trials and triumphs she navigates a typical night out.