Jackie (Jackline) Nake Lumbasi is a Kenyan media personality currently working in

Kigali, Rwanda Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwanda's economic, cu ...

. She co-hosted The Big Breakfast Show on 91.3 Capital FM from 2008 to 2018 with a number of presenters including

Gaetano Kagwa Gaetano Jjuko Kagwa is a Ugandan actor and broadcaster. He currently co-hosts a breakfast show "Gaetano & Lucky in the Morning" at 91.3 Capital FM with Lucky Mbabazi as well a judge on East Africa's Got Talent alongside Dj Makeda, Jeff Koinange a ...

, Ramesh Gabalsing, Alan Kasujja, Marcus Kwikiriza and Oulanya as well as read the evening news on UBC in Uganda until 2014. Lumbasi went off Capital FM airwaves in February 2018 and joined an off air position at the same station after a full reshuffle of the Big Breakfast show but shortly after that moved to Rwandan-based Royal FM to do a morning Show in English Language alongside Kwizera. She is very much known for her deep strong, husky voice hearty laugh and was mentioned among the highest paid radio presenters in Uganda. She swears by her ability to tell stories and has written articles for different Newspapers in the region including The New Times, Rwanda. https://muckrack.com/jackie-lumbasi/articles She is a voice over artiste, events host and moderator among other activities she engages in out of passion.

Career

Lumbasi started her media career as a presenter at a Christian radio station Power FM in Kampala. She then moved to Capital Fm Uganda where she started hosting the breakfast show in 2009 after the departure of Lilian Mbabazi until 2018 when the whole breakfast show was reshuffled. She revealed her departure in one of Flavia Tumusiime's video diaries which was shared on Flavia's and Capital FM's Facebook page. She immediately got an offer in Kigali, Rwanda in March 2018 where she hosted the breakfast show with Kwizera. Jackie joked about a fact that she has worked with people whose names start with letter K, citing Alan Kasujja, Marcus Kwikiriza,

and currently in Rwanda, where she hosts a breakfast show dubbed 'Kigali In The Morning,' together with Kwizera_Arnold. In 2019, Jackie Lumbasi was appointed Acting Station Manager of Royal Fm, a position in which she served until April 2022. On January 4th, 2023, through her Twitter account @JackieLumbasi, she officially announced her departure from the radio, without divulging where she was headed. Through her time on air in Kigali, Rwanda Jackie worked with different Co-hosts including Babu and Chris.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lumbasi, Jackie Kenyan radio presenters Kenyan women radio presenters 1979 births Living people Kenyan journalists Kenyan women journalists Kenyan radio journalists Kenyan women radio journalists Kenyan television presenters Kenyan women television presenters Kenyan mass media people Kenyan television journalists Kenyan women television journalists