What You Probably Did Not Know About KTN’s Nancy Kacungira

When Nancy Kacungira first flew into the country from her native Uganda to work with KTN, very few of us really knew who she was. Not until she made an instant impact at KTN that we started speaking about.

The other day Ghafla Kenya did an article on the TV sirens who have made a difference on our screens but are not given the hype they deserve (read: here) and Nancy was among them.

The TV siren has, however, came out to reveal some of the things that we probably do not know.

Nancy had her elder sister Seanice Kacungira working with radio in Kenya before she left for her native Uganda and the KTN prime time news anchor says she drew her inspiration from the sisters who would help her when she was stuck.

Nancy reveals that after her undergraduate degree where she graduated with a first class from Makerere University, she worked for radio for a while and later joined Leeds University in the United Kingdom for her masters.

It was after Leeds that she got exposed and landed a job with KTN where she has incredibly excelled.

Kacungira is an entrepreneur with investments in Uganda which she runs alongside her elder sister.

She says that her drive is the desire to be better each day and that she always blocks haters and people with negative comments that are meant to break her down. She says that she, however, prefers positive criticism because she believes it helps to build her.

Her worst moment? Nancy says that there was a time when tabloids ran stories that she had got engaged and married privately to a rich tycoon in Uganda. She says that this broke her down and she needed courage to convince her family that she is not married.

Nancy was speaking to the PULSE.