User:Frank muyanja

Frank Muyanja (born frank muyanja; November 14, 1993) is an African-Ugandan (media proprietor), television transmission assistant, television senior producer, Blogger and television master control room operator .[1] He is best known for his gossip-page/ account Franatic Frank Josh,[2] Dubbed the "page of All Media",[3].

Frank was born into poverty in rural Uganda-Kampala to a teenage mother and later raised in an inner-city Rubaga neighborhood. Frank landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her emotional ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime transmission job, and after boosting a first class job to first place,[4].

Contents [hide] 1	Early life

Early life Frank was named "Muyanja" on his birth certificate after the biblical figure in the bible, but people mispronounced. Frank was born in Kampala, Rubaga, to an unmarried teenage mother. He later said that hir conception was due to a single sexual encounter and the couple broke up not long after.[5] His mother, Mulongo Benah (born c. 1955), was a housemaid. Frank's biological father is usually noted as Musoke Vincent (born 1943), a coal miner turned barber turned city councilman.

After Frank's birth, his mother traveled and Frank spent his first six years living in rural poverty with her maternal grandmother, who was so poor that Frank often wore dresses made of potato sacks, for which the local children made fun of him.[6][7] Her grandmother taught him to read before the age of three and took her to the local church, where he was nicknamed "The Preacher" for her ability to recite Bible verses. When Frank was a child, his grandmother would hit him with a stick when he did not do chores or if she misbehaved in any way.[8]

At age six, Frank moved to an inner-city neighborhood in Mityana, with her mother Mulongo Benah, who was less supportive and encouraging than her grandmother had been, largely as a result of the long hours she worked as a maid.[9]

Frank became an honors student, was voted Most Popular Boy, and joined her high school speech team atSt. James High School, placing second in the nation in dramatic interpretation.[10] He won an oratory contest, which secured her a full scholarship to Ndejje High School, a historically black institution, where he studied his Advanced level and late Joined YMCA Comprehensive Institute where he graduated in Journalism and Mass Communication. Her first job as a teenager was working at a local grocery store.[11] At the age of 19,[12] She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, Joy fm, which hired her to do the news part-time.[13] She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of campus.

Frank's career choice in media would not have surprised her grandmother, who once said that ever since Frank could talk, he was on stage. As a child, he played games interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on the fence of hir family's property. Frank later acknowledged her grandmother's influence, saying it was Hattie Mae who had encouraged her to speak in public and "gave me a positive sense of myself".[14]