Bebe Cool helped me secure NTV job - Douglas Lwanga

Lwanga had been at Record for some five years and was hosting a popular entertainment show dubbed Katogo.

He had quit after frustration with management and he saw no future at the company.

Bebe Cool called to ask what he planned to do next, and Lwanga, who hadn’t decided, told him he was still open to offers from different stations that were calling him.

Despite not being “close friends,” Douglas Lwanga recalled in an interview with Crystal Newman, "He was like, you should not settle for less, you are a big brand, you've built something, I want you at this place. So, he picked up the phone and called” Aggie Konde, then managing director of Africa Broadcasting Uganda Limited, a subsidiary of Nation Media Group and owner of NTV Uganda.

Bebe set up the meeting with Konde and Douglas Lwanga pitched his idea. He joined NTV in 2013.

Who is Douglas Lwanga?

Born in Entebbe and raised by a single mom (Robinah Kidandala) after his dad (Sam Musoke) passing, Douglas Lwanga was born with three sisters and he is the only boy & second-last born

He went to one of the St. Lawrence schools before pursuing Journalism and Mass Communication at Makerere University.

In O-Level he was part of a dance group that did tours in Uganda and outside Uganda. The group was called The Exclusives and they were managed by a team that included Hakeem The Dream (radio host); Karl, the former manager of Grace Nakimera and Andre Ringen, Nakimera’s ex-husband.

After university, he started as a photographer at a company called MGS Videos, which was a big events company at the time. He then went to Multitech Business School to pursue a course in graphic design and started earning through making ads.

He left MGS to join Record TV, where he started by filming a show hosted by renowned communications specialist Tina Wamala.

Record TV later got a new manager who encouraged Douglas Lwanga to start TV presenting after seeing him speak during a meeting.

He left Record to join NTV, then NBS.