‘I Would Rather Be a Dwarf’: A Comic in Botswana Prizes His Difference

The New York Times | April 17, 2026, 5 a.m. | Original
Johnson Masase has found local fame, and self acceptance, through performances that play on people’s ignorance about his genetic condition and his 3-foot-4 inch frame.
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