Ugandan media Personality Allan Kasujja has announced his departure from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) after a period of 13 years.
Kasujja has worked with the international media company as the Lead Presenter of BBC News Day and the Host of the Africa Daily Podcast both under the BBC World Service. He recorded his final episode of Africa Daily in May 2025,the podcast he hosted since its inception in 2021.
Today,the renowned broadcaster posted a message on his X account officially announcing that he has finally left the world’s biggest public service broadcaster.
Kasujja’s Message
It has been 13 years of constant growth.. breaking barriers..amplifying African voices on the biggest stage…going into spaces that would otherwise never be explored.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to have worked at the BBC. It’s been transformative.Thank you to my colleagues around the world especially on Africa Daily and Newsday.
I’m also grateful for my family and friends – whose support has kept me going. I didn’t think I’d last this long.I was ready to leave in 2014. But I’m glad I stuck it.The global network I’ve built over the last 13 years will be valuable in the next chapter of this story.
We must continue to weave Africa’s narrative. No one is coming to save us.No one cares as much as we do.
Kasujja’s announcement has come at a time when the UK Owned broadcasting corporation is still undergoing a restructuring plan that was announced in 2022 which has seen the loss of nearly 400 jobs and the decommissioning of several programs.
Kasujja’s Media Career
Kasujja joined the BBC World Service in September 2012. His first assignment was in Kampala as he worked with Paul Bakibinga on Newsday’s coverage of the 50th anniversary of Uganda’s independence on the 9 October. He then flew to London to join the Newsday team and begin broadcasting in November that year.
Allan has been part of Uganda’s media industry since his late teens,when he joined The New Vision as a freelance writer and photographer. Allan started his radio career at Sanyu FM in the nineties,worked at Capital FM, Nairobi between 2007 and 2009, then returned to Uganda to present The Big Breakfast on 91.3 Capital, Kampala. He hosted Uganda’s version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and hosted The Fourth Estate on NTV Uganda.
Kasujja also co-moderated Uganda’s first-ever televised presidential debate On 15 January 2016, alongside journalist Nancy Kacungira who is also a former employee of the BBC World Service but was working in KTN News by then.
(Additional information via BBC)
