Nam Kiwanuka

Namugenyi "Nam" Kiwanuka is a Ugandan-Canadian television personality and journalist.

Kiwanuka came to Canada with her family in 1983, following the Ugandan Civil War.[1] She was given the Christian name Mary, which she used while attending the journalism program at Ryerson University in Toronto in the mid-1990s. She was a VJ for MuchMusic from 1999 to 2003[2] and later hosted basketball and football programming on Rogers Sportsnet that included the weekly NBA XL program.[3] She is currently a reporter and substitute anchor on TVOntario's newsmagazine series The Agenda.[4] Kiwanuka has volunteered overseas for War Child Canada, Journalists for Human Rights and the Canadian Red Cross.[5]

References
  1. Kiwanuka, Nam (February 26, 2016). "Black identity and the skin I'm in". TVO.org.
  2. "Call goes out to all VJ wannabes ; Video station MuchMusic holding country-wide auditions". Toronto Star, November 10, 1999.
  3. "Analysts will be pressed hard to give oomph to NHL draft show". The Globe and Mail, June 25, 2004.
  4. "TVO Welcomes Nam Kiwanuka To The Agenda". Canada NewsWire, February 16, 2016.
  5. Getachew, Samuel (April 10, 2013). "This Former MuchMusic VJ Is Making an Impact". HuffPost.


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