Nancy Kacungira (born 1986) is a Ugandan presenter and reporter at BBC News. She presented Focus on Africa from 2017 to January 2019 and World Business Report on BBC World News.
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. 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, though she as of April is yet to present the TV edition.
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.
Career
Kacungira began as a radio presenter while still at university, working her way up from intern to Deputy Program Director by the time she received her first class degree. She then earned her Master of Arts degree in Communication Studies from the University of Leeds, where she graduated with distinction.
Also an entrepreneur, Nancy co-founded the Blu Flamingo digital agency, which now operates in four African countries
Kacungira began her media career as a radio presenter at Power FM, a Christian radio station in Kampala, Uganda. In 2010 Kacungira together with her older sister Seanice Kacungira co-founded Blu Flamingo; a digital media management company. 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.
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.[4] She then returned to KTN News Kenya but was later hired by the BBC where she presents Focus on Africa.
In 2016, Kacungira was one of the two moderators at the Ugandan presidential debate with another Ugandan BBC presenter Alan Kasujja.
A champion of diversity, balance and nuance in narratives about Africa, Nancy won the inaugural BBC World News Komla Dumor Award in 2015, and the Women For Africa International Award in 2016 for her work in challenging stereotypes and misconceptions.
Recognized as one of Uganda’s most influential women of 2017, Nancy has presented on some of the world’s biggest platforms including TedX and the World Economic Forum
Nancy continues to show that dreams and aspirations have no boundaries and when you put your mind to it the sky can never be the limit making her the perfect Woman Crush today.
