User:Chimweka Chileshe

Chimweka Chileshe (born 16 December 1997) is a Zambian television host and entertainer, known for his TV Shows one of Zambia’s most popular private TV Stations, Diamond TV since 20th March 2017.

EARLY LIFE.

Chimweka Chileshe was born on the 16th of December 1997 in Lusaka to Alphonsine Chaapa Chileshe, a nurse and Alex Chileshe, a lawyer and former Head of Public Relations. He was born in Lusaka’s Emmasdale area, spent a few years in Kamwala and Hellen Kaunda areas, but grew up in Northmead area near the Central Business District. Chimweka grew up in a family of 6, with him being the third born child, sharing 2 elder brothers, one young brother and two young sisters.

EDUCATION

Chimweka attended Kondwera Primary School for his whole primary education, then for his secondary education he went to Rhodes Park School until the ninth grade. In the tenth grade he attended Mpelembe Secondary School in the Copperbelt Province before returning to Rhodes Park for his 11th and 12th grade.

CAREER

In 2008, Chileshe was part of a group called the Mega Kids Club, a club that aimed at promoting young peoples’ talents. With no ‘particular talent’ at the time, Chimweka was assigned to just be the presenter cue-ing in his colleauges with talents at events that they would they would be performing at.

With time, the club was connected to a producer at the biggest private TV Station at the time (Muvi Television), the late Mr. Augustine Lungu, to work with the talents from the club for a new TV show they would be starting called the Kids and Teens Breakfast Show. All the kids from the group showcased their abilities, Chimweka inclusive. One of the things that stood out for Mr. Lungu were the confidence levels that Chimweka's exhibited during his presentation and hence groomed him to be one of the co-presenters of this new show that was starting up.

Most of his companions from the club only had one off performances on the show, while Chimweka became a regular presenter on the show. With his consistency on the show, Chimweka presented on the program for three years before shifting his focus onto his secondary education.

The Kids and Teens Breakfast Show was later turned into “Teen Fusion” after most of the founding presenters had left the show.

Soon after completing his Secondary education in 2015, Chileshe auditioned to be a part of a weekly Youth TV talk show on the National Broadcasting Corporation, ZNBC TV2, on a show called THE LINK in late November 2015.

After coming out in first position in the auditions, Chimweka was selected to be one of the presenters of the show. While still being groomed into presenting the show, Chimweka was only allowed to present the opening segment of the show, but not so long later his producers gained enough confidence in him to conduct the main interviews of the show. This was in the early months of 2016.

In September 2016, while still being affiliated with ZNBC TV2’s THE LINK program, Chileshe was invited to be a part of a new TV station that will be established in a few months time, showing interest in the services he offered at the national broadcaster.

The station at the time was a poorly branded TV station, MOBI TV which would later be rebranded into DIAMOND TV.

After multiple meetings and discussions with the management of the company at the time (including popular broadcaster and CEO, COSTA MWANSA), Chileshe was quite impressed with the vision and considered joining the production team of the company. He was further asked to audition for formalities sake and with time, he and a few others were picked out of over a 100 people that auditioned.

In January 2017, Chimweka officially announced that he would no longer be a part of ZNBC TV2’s THE LINK program. He was awarded a contract effective February 2017 at DIAMOND TV.

At the time, Diamond TV was still airing as MOBI TELEVISION, however programs were already being produced in readiness for the launch of Diamond TV.

With the launch of Diamond Television on the 21st of March 2017, his career has seen to be growing bigger by the month, boasting with interviews with some of the biggest names in the Zambian entertainment industries as well as some interviews with some International acts such as South African TV Personality, Boitumelo Thulo, popularly known as Boity as well the Mi Casa band.