Usher Komugisha

Usher Komugisha (born ) is a Ugandan sports journalist and commentator, who is also a former athlete. With 15 years of experience as a multi-media journalist, she has worked with international outlets including Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, ESPN, International Basketball Federation (FIBA), Sky Sports and SuperSport. She is a commentator with the Basketball Africa League (BAL). In the 2020 Momentum gsport Awards, she was the inaugural winner of the category "African Woman in Sport" in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Biography Early years and education Usher Komugisha was born in Kilembe, in present-day Kasese District, western Uganda, and has two older siblings: her brother Campbell Nagaba and sister Mellisa Fiona. Her parents were athletic, and she said in a 2020 interview: "I have always loved sports from my childhood and because my parents introduced me to reading books and daily newspapers from a very young age, I always wanted to be the girl that knows information before everyone else so that I can tell them in detail. When I look back, that actually moulded me into being a journalist."

In 2021, she commentated the inaugural game of the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in Kigali.

In November - December 2022, she was a TV analyst for Al Jazeera at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar alongside renowned media gurus Gemma Soler from Spain and Colombian Juan Arango.

Usher is also an international moderator and host of high level events like the sports panel with the FIFA President Gianni Infantino and CAF President Dr Patrice Motsepe at the 2022 Commonwealth Business Forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali, Rwanda. She also moderated the inaugural Moving Sports Forward Forum in the same year organised by the Toronto Raptors President Masai Ujiri in Kigali, Rwanda.

She is passionate about mentoring young women and men who are seeking to pursue careers in sports especially across the African continent.