The best medicine: Ugandan clinician turned funnyman Hillary Okello 

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Ugandan comedian Hillary Okello, he left medicine to pursue comedy, finding inspiration in life experiences and the challenges of the stage.

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If there is one question that exhausts Ugandan comedian Hillary Okello, it is the reflexive cliché: ‘What do you do?’

“I’m tired of it,” he says. “Every time I meet someone new, that’s the first thing they ask. What do you do for a living? I mean, is that all we are?”