Nancy Kacungira

Nancy Kacungira
Kacungira in 2017
Born1986 (age 39–40)
Tanzania
OccupationsJournalist, news anchor
EmployerBBC
Known forCo-founder of Blu Flamingo
Notable workFocus on Africa (TV programme)
World News Today with Nancy Kacungira
In Business Africa
The Daily Global with Nancy Kacungira
FatherClifford Kacungira
RelativesSeanice Lojede (sister)
Awards2015 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award
Websitekacungira.com

Nancy Kacungira (born 1986)[1] is a Ugandan presenter and reporter at BBC News.[2] She presented Focus on Africa from 2017 to January 2019 and World Business Report on BBC World News.

Background and education

Kacungira was born on October 11, 1986[3] to Clifford Kacungira in Tanzania. She studied at Namasagali college for her O level and later Kibuli Secondary School for A level. She then earned her Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, where she graduated with distinction.[4]

Career

Kacungira began as a radio presenter while still at university, working her way up from intern to Deputy Program Director.[4]

Kacungira began her media career as a radio presenter at Power FM, a Christian radio station in Kampala, Uganda.[5] In 2010, Kacungira together with her older sister Seanice Kacungira co-founded Blu Flamingo; a digital media management company.[6][7] She moved from radio to TV at NTV Uganda as a newsreader from 2012 to 2013, after which she moved to Kenya to work for KTN News Kenya as a social media editor in late 2013.[8]

While still at KTN News Kenya in 2015, Kacungira applied for the Komla Dumor Award, which she won and went to the BBC for three months' training.[9] She then returned to KTN News Kenya but was later hired by the BBC where she presented Focus on Africa, but later became the main presenter of World News Today and In Business Africa, a main presenter at weekends and correspondent both BBC News Channel and BBC World News.

In 2016, Kacungira was one of the two moderators at the Ugandan presidential debate with another Ugandan BBC presenter Alan Kasujja.[10]

After a stint presenting World News Today in August 2018, she became the main presenter at 7 pm weekdays and 9 pm weekends from September 2019 when she is not on assignment, as part of here 19:00–01:00GMT/BST, on BBC Four, BBC News Channel and BBC World News, and has presented In Business Africa since January 2019, a programme she presented alongside Ashionye Ogene.[11] She also is a relief presenter for The Briefing at 05:00GMT on BBC One, BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2022, she also started presenting on BBC World Service Outside Source, but she never presented the TV version.[12][13]

At the beginning of June 2020, she began presenting most of the evening output two in three weekends, on both BBC News Channel and BBC World News. Including the second half of BBC News at Ten on Friday and Saturday, alternative Sundays. Since April 2023 main presenters and correspondents for the new merged BBC News Channel covering for its chief presenters, presenting mainly evening programmes The World Today with Nancy Kacungira, the successor to World News Today, which was rebranded from The Daily Global while she was on maternity leave, The Context, UK-opt outs, BBC News at One and the BBC Weekend News.

Following the merger of BBC World News and BBC News in April 2023, Kacungira became one of the main presenters and correspondents for the new channel covering for its chief presenters, presenting mainly evening programmes The Daily Global with Nancy Kacungira, The Context, UK-opt outs and the BBC Weekend News.[14] She was also the presenter and correspondent covering Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex phone hacking case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) and political events at Westminster including Privileges Committee publicization of a report, which concluded that Boris Johnson lied to and deliberately misled the House of Commons over Partygate, misled the Committee themselves during the hearing, and acted in contempt of the Committee itself through a "campaign of abuse and intimidation".[15]

Awards

Personal life

Kacungira announced via Instagram that she had got married in January 2023.[21][22] In December 2024, she announced she gave birth to a boy.[23][24]

References

  1. ↑ Rom, Larmack Freddie (15 August 2017). "Ugandan born journalist Nancy Kacungira joins BBC". Campus Bee. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  2. ↑ Chacha, Gardy (18 January 2014). "Nancy Kacungira: The new face on KTN opens up about her life journey". standardmedia.co.ke. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Mwangi, Teresia (28 October 2020). "Nancy Kacungira biography: Husband, family, net worth, education, career - Tuko.co.ke". www.tuko.co.ke. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  4. 1 2 "TEDxEuston | TED". www.ted.com.
  5. ↑ "Your girls on the news: Nancy Kacungira". Monitor. 7 January 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  6. ↑ "Seanice is a bully-Nancy". Monitor. 21 November 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  7. ↑ "Cashing in on digital media". Monitor. 3 January 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  8. ↑ Reporter, Vision. "Young women changing the face of African media". New Vision. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  9. ↑ "Nancy Kacungira – Profile, Education, Life History, Job History". Kenyan Life. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "BBC's Kasujja, Kacungira to moderate presidential debate". Daily Monitor. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  11. ↑ "About the programme". 30 January 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  12. ↑ BBC News Fix.
  13. ↑ "Why I cannot tell 'the African story'". BBC News. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  14. ↑ Team, The Observer (16 August 2017). "Star trail: Nancy Kacungira upgrades to BBC Africa". The Observer. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  15. ↑ "Presenter profile: Nancy Kacungira". 30 January 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  16. ↑ "Nancy Kacungira awarded the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award". BBC. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  17. ↑ Agyeman-Fisher, Abena (19 August 2015). "BBC World News Names Nancy Kacungira As Recipient of Komla Dumor Award". Face2Face Africa. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  18. ↑ "Ugandan journalist Nancy Kacungira wins BBC World News Komla Dumor Award". The Citizen. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  19. ↑ Reporter, Vision. "Ugandan journalist wins BBC World news Komla Dumor award". New Vision. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  20. ↑ "Nancy Kacungira wins BBC award". Monitor. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  21. ↑ Waswa, Sam (8 February 2023). "Photos: Nancy Kacungira Ties the Knot". ChimpReports. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
  22. ↑ "Register". Retrieved 31 January 2023 – via instagram.
  23. ↑ "Register". Retrieved 19 January 2024 – via instagram.
  24. ↑ Benjie (12 January 2024). "BBC's Nancy Kacungira celebrates birth of son". MBU. Retrieved 24 March 2026.
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