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.