ANNIE KANSIME BIOGRAPHY

WHO IS ANNIE KANSIME

If I were to name the best comedian in East Africa I would not hesitate to name Annie Kansime  known as Africa’s queen of comedy’  she is the most  famous comedian from Uganda, well known world wide through internet and Television.

But who is Annie Kansime and how did she became the most loved comedian of all time? Her history started from a small village known as Mparo located  at Kabale District, Western Uganda where her parents  lived and that is the very place she was born on 13 April 1987. She  attended Kabale Primary  School, then went  For her O-Level and A-Level education at Bweranyagi Girls Senior Secondary School in Bushenyi . after completing her A-level Education, she decided to chase her dream career of becoming an Actress, so joined the Makerere University where by she now hold a Bachelor degree of Arts in Social Science.

As we all know her acting skills, she actually started acting while she was still at University where by she participated in drama skits acted by the theatre known as the Factory theatrewho used to play at the Uganda National Theatre in Kampala Central Bussines District before broke apart. Later she joined the Theatre Fun  which used to play  every Thursday evenings and the best skits were broadcasted on NTV Uganda in the Barbed Wire TV show that later became U-Turn.  Together she and  Brian Mulondo  they started to produce the  Taxi interview conductor in the MiniBuzz series and provided comic videos  of topical issues that  random passengers discussed.

As her dream was to become famous and to earn more money through her career she decided to use the Internet knowing that it’s the best way for many people to know her best doing in comedy, so   Annie began posting some of her sketch comedy skits on You Tube  and she received positive feedback  that encouraged her  to post more videos.

Through You Tube videos she posted  became known to a lot of peoples ang her dream of becaming more famous world wide started to come into reality when  the most watched Television in Kenya  Citizen Tv offered her  to produce  and present a comedy show  once a week, and that’s when she brought up ‘ Don’t Mess With Kansiime ‘, and the show became most viewed and loved but also her You Tube account was amassed than 15 million views in 2014 she also had appeared on BBC Focus on Africa show which just added more viewers on her You Tube Videos.

Kansime who is married  Gerald Ojok has continued to perform  and touring as a standup comedian although she got various acting commitments. And talking about her comedy style she tends to focus on aspects of her personal life, she likes talking about things that are going on in her life because she believe that’s  always going to be different and original.

Through her hard work she was awarded different awards like African Social Award Malaysia in 2013, Social Media Awards in the categoly of  Favorite Celebrity , Lagos International  Festival 2013, Best Comedian 2013, and in the year 2014 she was awarded  the Best Woman of Substance by Airtel.

HOW WAS MY DAY TWO IN THE TRAINING OF INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

The day began by going through the assigment given by the trainer the other day where we were suppose to write the summary of the first day training then post it on our bloggs pages. then we started the topic of the day on JOURNALIST REASERCH VIA INTERNET. 

we were given some tips what to consider before starting the reaserch on internet like to think before going to the web because not every issue you want to do research on can be found on the internet. but on this day we got alot to learn on the way to do do reaserch on the internet, i can say almost everything was totally knew to me.

I never knew that i can get details on different issues just by going through website of the relavant. the practical was cool and it made me open my mind and think big before writting anything about anything.

SUMMARY ON TODAY'S TRAINING AT OPEN UNIVERSITY OF MBEYA

We started the day of training on investigative internet journalism by introducing ourselves then we got a short history on the this training as it is the second time to be trained in Mbeya Region  supervised by MISATAN.

Then the trainer explained to as what is Investigative Internet Journalism all about and how it is done through internet like in social networks as  facebook , Instargram and Jamii forum. The session was a coorperative one since we all participated to show experience how we use internet at our working places but also at our private hours.

What I liked most in today’s training is the way we all coorperated  in sharing experiences and challenges, but I also liked how the trainer used the reffering tools to gather more information so as we can save time to go through them even after the training.

Thanks to the trainer and my fellow trainees I didn’t come across something to dislike today, I just home the other remaining days will be as cool as today.

So far on today’s training I learned a lot I didn’t know like the fact that facebook can also be the source of investigative news depanding on what kind of peoples you are friends with. I also learned the various blogs and website where I can learn more on investigative internet journalism, not forgetting what kind of stories can be investigated eg. Polital ncorruption, crimes etc.

HOW MY WEEK GOES

Hello, my name is Sarah Zakayo I work at Kyela fm Community Radio located at Kyela District in Mbeya Region , I work as a Journalist, Radio Presenter, Radio  programmes producer and a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer.

On this week am attending a 3days workshop  from 23/03/2015 to 25/03/2015 on Investigative Internet  Jornalism conducted by MISATAN . 

As a  Journalist am expecting to learn more on this issue because I dream on  becoming a specialized journalist on investigative news, so am looking forward to start my journey on becoming one.