User:HARRIS KAPIGA BIOGRAPHY

Harris Kapiga was born in 1975, he spent his early childhood in Iramba district, Singida region in the central Tanzania where he obtained his primary education before moving to Dar es Salaam for higher education at Azania Secondary School. He was given his name “Newman Kapiga” from his hero grandfather who raised him since his normative age. Grandpa Newman Kapiga was an ardent pastor,whose humble but eloquent pastoral character influenced and shaped Harri's blazing charismatic personality today. Despite his status, Pastor Harris Kapiga, like many other Tanzanians in rural villages grew up in the modest family being raised by a single parent—his grandfather.

Before joining Clouds Media Group as a prominent radio personality in Tanzania, Harris journeyed through various works in the country. After finishing high school, he worked as a Sales Associates in Dar es Salaam.

After graduating from University of Nations, Uganda in 1998 where he earned a diploma in Biblical Studies he worked at St. Mary School as a Patron.

In 2001, while pursuing his advanced diploma in Journalism at the Tanzania Institute for Media Education (TIMES,) he did field work at PRT, a subsidiary of Tanzania’s National Public Radio also known as “Radio Tanzania”.

Because of his exhalative way of news presentations, Pastor Kapiga has worked with various Christian Radio Stations in the country including Radio Habari Maalum in Arusha, WAPO Radio and Praise Power Radio in Dar es Salaam where he worked as the Programs Manager.

Kapiga’s talent is not confined to only preaching the Gospel and journalism. In 2010 after completion of his Bachelor degree in Public Administrations and International Relations, he worked at STANBIC Bank as a also harris is now working at crouds media group presing a gospol session known as gospol track every sunday morning in crouds fm radio Retail Banker before he went to pursue his Masters in Economic Development at the Open University in Dar es Salaam.

As a luminary, high profile corporations has used his star power to produce popular commercials in Tanzania.

Among the commercial advertisements Harris appeared included those of TTCL, SASATEL, CORAL PAINTS, NMB Bank—just to mention a few. Harris is also a star in a movie well known in Tanzania.

He is gospel music composer and producer and a prolific motivational speaker where he averages attend over 100 corporate seminars a year church retreats, concerts and wedding ceremonies across East Africa.

As a pastor with insatiable desire to address challenges facing the young generation, in 2010 Pastor Kapiga founded a youth-leaning church in Dar es Salaam called NCHI YA AHADI (Promised Land), where he currently serves as a Senior Pastor.

The Church also incorporates programs such as “Chimbo School of Thought”, an outreach program that seeks to positively influence urban youth mind-sets and inculcate the spirit of self-responsibility, civic leadership and engage them in entrepreneurial projects which will ultimately make them become productive and competitive citizens in Tanzania.

Pastor Kapiga’s church also runs the only Gospel Night Club in Tanzania that brings together all youths without regards of their religious denominations for the purpose of praise and worshiping in a contemporary music setting.

As an emerging force of highly gifted leader, Pastor Kapiga is sought by many organizations and church bodies to serve as a board member. He currently serves as a Board Secretary of the COSAD-Tanzania (www.cosad.org) and a founding Board Member of the Tanzania Gospel House of Talent—just to mention a few.

Pastor Kapiga is blessed to get married to a beautiful woman called Celesty. Together they have two wonderful sons Larry and Linox Kapiga.