Uganda’s media icon Flavia Tumusiime announced on Saturday evening how she’s leaving the media behind to embark on a new career path.
After returning to social media a few days ago, Flavia said she decided to seek out tech and innovation, where she would apply all the skills she attained in media.
Flavia revealed that she is not looking back because she has done almost everything and believes there is nothing more left for her to do in the media.
According to Flavia, she doesn’t think that she wants to start up a television or a radio station but since she is joining the field where she can apply all the skills she got in the media she is happy.
“I have decided to change my industry, I have been in media for 21 long years and there wasn’t anything else left to do. There wasn’t any ceiling to hit.
“I wasn’t going to be a manager of a radio station or build a TV from scratch the next opportunity for me was tech,” Flavia said.
announced she’s going to be a full-time developer.
Briefly About Flavia Tumusiime
Tumusiime had a short stint working as a presenter on HOT100 FM in 2006 before finally settling at Capital FM where she has been.
Tumusiime has been a television presenter since she was a teenager. She started presenting on WBS TV’s teen club, a show she did with other teens for four years. Between 2010 and 2012, she presented K-files, another program on WBS TV.
Since 2011, she has presented the Guinness football challenge. It has been aired on NTV (Uganda) and ITV & KTN (Kenya). In the same period, she was a VJ on Channel O. She was also a presenter for Big Brother Africa in 2012.
Flavia joined NTV Uganda as a news anchor on NTV Tonight in 2016. She is a former co-host of a morning show Morning @ NTV which she started early 2018.
