Ediu George Stanley Nsamba, also known as "Nes" (born 14 October 1989)
is a Ugandan film producer, director, cinematographer, screenwriter,
editor, spokenword artist and human rights activist.Nsamba was born in
Mulago Hospital in the capital city of Uganda Kampala and grew up in
the slums of Naguru. Born to a social worker mum Mrs Vicky Aryenyo and
his father Musisi costantine who worked at Mulago Hospital, his family
lived a typical middle-class family in Uganda until his parents
divorced when he was 6 letting him and his two siblings grow up with a
single mother. Much as he can not count how many siblings he has on
his father's side, he is the second born of three kids with the older
sister Doreen Apiny and younger brother Brian Smith Were. He is a
college dropout from Makerere University where he was offering a
bachelor's degree in Industrial and Fine Arts.His parents having
divorced in 1996, Nsamba, his mother and two siblings moved to
Naguru-go-down, a huge slum in Kampala, into an unfinished building
which flooded when it rained and construction went on as they lived in
it. After being diagnosed with HIV, his mother was admitted at Nsambya
hospital in 1998 life became unbearable, Nsamba had to work as a kid
carrying trash in exchange for old newspapers that he sold to put
together money for his little brother's feeding. In 2010 after the
death of his friend Ronnie in the July 2010 Kampala attacks, he
overcame the drug addiction that he had battled for nearly six years.
is a Ugandan film producer, director, cinematographer, screenwriter,
editor, spokenword artist and human rights activist.Nsamba was born in
Mulago Hospital in the capital city of Uganda Kampala and grew up in
the slums of Naguru. Born to a social worker mum Mrs Vicky Aryenyo and
his father Musisi costantine who worked at Mulago Hospital, his family
lived a typical middle-class family in Uganda until his parents
divorced when he was 6 letting him and his two siblings grow up with a
single mother. Much as he can not count how many siblings he has on
his father's side, he is the second born of three kids with the older
sister Doreen Apiny and younger brother Brian Smith Were. He is a
college dropout from Makerere University where he was offering a
bachelor's degree in Industrial and Fine Arts.His parents having
divorced in 1996, Nsamba, his mother and two siblings moved to
Naguru-go-down, a huge slum in Kampala, into an unfinished building
which flooded when it rained and construction went on as they lived in
it. After being diagnosed with HIV, his mother was admitted at Nsambya
hospital in 1998 life became unbearable, Nsamba had to work as a kid
carrying trash in exchange for old newspapers that he sold to put
together money for his little brother's feeding. In 2010 after the
death of his friend Ronnie in the July 2010 Kampala attacks, he
overcame the drug addiction that he had battled for nearly six years.
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