Amini Cishugi

**Henri Amini Cishugi** is a Congolese writer, singer, songwriter, Youtuber and actor, better know as Amini Cishugi. Born and raised in Bukavu, South Kivu, he is a Roman Catholic baptized *Henri* in April 2010. Author of seven book, which AT HOME known as his autobiographical book, published in 2016.

## Life and career

### 1996-2008: Early years

Amini Cishugi is conglese writer, blogger, film actor and YouTuber, known for his books AT HOME written in 2016 and Pleasure of The Spirit and Eyes written in 2017, born in July 13th, 1996 in Bukavu, South Kivu (the largest eastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo).

He is the son of trader parents Raphaël Cishugi (1969 - 2018) and Georgine Nyahengwa (1972 - ). His father, Raphaël Cishugi, was a former employer at Kotecha Society. Amini attended C.S. AZMA from 2001 to 2008.

### 2008-2015: Teenage years

Early he started his career at 15 years when he published his first short story "Kashofu Memories" in February 2012, he find many challengers but he takes out and follow his own way that he fixed to his future life. He first came to prominence in 2014 as an author writing for and later editing The twenty questions of self knowledge.

During his senior years, Amini was educated at Nyalukemba Institute and Espoir 1 Institute High school before to be admitted at Kashofu Institute, a Catholic boarding school. At Kashofu (Idjwi), Amini received an education grounded in the religious method; Amini graduated from Kashofu Institute in June 2015. After graduating with a first-class honors degree, he performed go to study his bachelor degree.

Several months after high school. Amini gone to International University of East Africa for his achelor degree in Science in Civil Engineering in Uganda, then reportedly he dropped out from college after ten months. Henri Amini Cishugi has since made a name for himself as a YouTuber and writer.

## Writing career

Amini Cishugi is best known on Wattpad and on SmashWords for his stories, his eBooks followed by hundreds visitors.

### From a Diary to a Book

Amini began writing his autobiographical story, All about Me, as a diary in early 2012 when his father send him to the boarding school at kashofu Institute, which later changed in AT HOME as the definitive book tittle.

The book itself narrated life story of two teenagers admitted at Kashofu Institute where the imagination of the all story of AT HOME began. It was heavily inspired by author's longtime crush Rolande Sifa Fundiko.

### Amini Cishugi and Wattpad

Amini Cishugi discovered Wattpad as a Google Ad on January 7, 2017. Anna Todd was his biggest influence to join the Canadian online literature social media. She is a Wattpad star, author of 'After' series, the highest reading Wattpad eBook, viewed more than one billion times online.

The same day, he announced that he would be joining the blog Wattpad to publish his books for everyone who want to read, vote and comment on his works. With an active account, Amini re-published Kashofu Boarding School keepsakes, a prequel novel that tells the events of AT HOME from the perspectives of his best friend meet at Kashofu. He then reedited AT HOME on Wappad with 187 chapters, the book received positive reviews from social media users, and earn a wide notice for the author's recognisation.

In 2017, in the second month of the year, he published The Twenty Questions of Self Knowledge on Wattpad. It earned only twelve votes and viewed less than fifty times it first week, while AT HOME had already more than one hundred votes. He self-published other stories the following months such as Pleasure of Two Spirit and Eyes, Sad Journey, Ben Parker's Diary; as in Januarry 2020 "Pleasure of The Spirit and Eyes" is the most popular Amini's Wattpad book with around 2000 readers follow by The Secret. The two books won, each one, in 2019 an independant awards on Wattpad.

Ben Parker's Diary is Amini Cishugi's first Wattpad story in French language and the only book nominated for Wattsy2017 Awards, ranked number 261 in Humor category in November 2017 after being reading one hundred seventy two times online, reviewed thirty three times.

In November 2018, Amini Cishugi self published his second book in French language on Wattpad tittle The Secret (French translation: Le Secret) from his duology. Confirmed on Instagram that Volume 2 is coming later in 2019 by sharing the sequel book cover art. Amini has written seven books and contributed to many plays (theatres) until 2018. He is now participate on the Voix d'Afriques literature price, organized by RFI and J.C. Lattes Editions with the resultat is excepted to be published in February 2020.

## Public Image and social media

### General

Amini is listed one of the most social media influence people from Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo, he is featured in local magazines such as 243 Stars (formerly Kivu Beats), Kivu media, Kivu Press and Lwimbo Magazine. He posted on his Facebook page in January 2018, “From my bottom, I can say big thank to my fan base. I had a dream of being famous since my childhood, but now you make it comes true”, after making one thousand LinkedIn connections.

As in March 2020, Amini Cishugi has an active social media presence with more than 1.5 thousand Instagram followers, over 7.8 LinkedIn connections and over 14.9 thousand followers on Facebook. Amini is also on VK, Twitter, Kivuzik, Wattpad, Pinterest and SoundCloud. His ebooks was attracted over 10K online reading thought Wattpad from around 260 loyal readers.

### YouTube

Amini Cishugi joined back YouTube on July 3, 2016, he first user the platform for public storage family memories videos online, uploaded videos photo collage less than three minutes. The totality one thousand Amini's YouTube subscribers are from 2017, he amassed more than 1600 subscribers during the first semester of 2018; as on August 2018, his videos have accumulated more than 1.1 million total views on YouTube and his main YouTube channel has more than 2.6 thousand subscribers, that make him the second most viewed YouTube channel from Kivu region after Innoss'B (The 2008 Vodacom Congo superstar) and the 57th grossing YouTube channel across the country. Amini became the first ever South Kivu YouTuber to have over 1 million channel views on YouTube because delecting all his videos from his channel in 2019.

### Musical.ly (Former TikTok)

He later joined musical.ly on Thursday, February 23, 2018, and by Sunday 25, 48 hours later, he was accumulated over 200 fans on the platform, "I knew only Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, SoundCloud, VK, Snapchat. And everywhere there, except Snapchat, I have an account with thousands fans. But there is somewhere very cool to be really live and connect to amazing people. I knew musical.ly by Mackenzie Ziegler, I knew Mackenzie by her sister Maddie Ziegler, and Maddie by Jojo Siwa. I'm 21, but it's crazy how I'm Jojo real fan. I love very much those teenagers".

Amini Cishugi reached one thousand fans fourteen days after, two thousands a week later. He publicly revealed his goal on the platform after crossing the 3K fans line: '100K fans goal', that means to be Crowded on the social media platform. As on April 20, 2018, Amini's musical.ly fanbase is over 3.1K with approximately 1K emoji-hearts.

## Personal life

Born in Bukavu, South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Third born in a family of eight. Amini has two sisters (Lydie and Alice) and five brothers. He currently live in Bujumbura for personal reason as he previously said on social medias.

### Religion

Amini Cishugi was raised Catholic. When he was 13, he was baptized by the name of Henri in the Roman Catholic Church at Saint Peter Claver Parish in Bukavu his hometown. Few weeks after, he received the sacrament of confirmation at the same parish by Mgr. Francois-Xavier Maroyi, the archbishop of Bukavu.

### Education

From September 2001to July 2008, Amini Cishugi attended C.S. AZMA, a private school in Ibanda, for kind grade and primary school. He learned French, computing, history, geography, with friends like Junior Remmy, Julie Furaha Nyota, David Ngundu, Grace Kabungulu, Joelle Busingis, and others. Graduated from primary school on July 2, 2008. Attended several high schools before being graduated with high mark from Kashofu Boarding School in July 2015.

In January 2016, Amini moved to Kampala in Uganda to first learn English and then join university for the undergraduate degree. Study ten months at International University of East Africa bachelor of science in Civil Engineering, dropped out due to financial issue of his family. It's note that Amini studied computer programming one semester online at openclass.com while attending IUEA. He was enrolled also at Uganda Christian University in February 2017 for the Foundation courses but he never attended at any lecture until got feared by the Academic staff.

## Achievements

Throughout his career, Amini Cishugi has earned an estimated of one million total views on YouTube and writing seven books.

## Books

* 2016: AT HOME
* 2017: Pleasure of the Spirit and Eyes
* 2017: Journal de Ben Parker
* 2017: Le Secret
* 2018: Mon copain de New-York City

## Videos

### SEASON 1 - Un tour sur l'île d'Idjwi

1. *Annonce d’une saison sur l’île d’Idjwi*
2. *Un voyage vers Kashofu*
3. *Qu'es-ce qu'il y'a vraiment à Kashofu*
4. *Un tour à l’internat de Kashofu*
5. *De retour à Bukavu*
6. *Quelques choses à savoir de Kashofu (Bonus)*

### SEASON 2 - 30 jours à Bujumbura

1. *Une graduation surprise à l'Universite Lumiere de Bujumbura* avec Wilson Masson
2. *De quoi parle-t-on des universités au Burundi*
3. *INSIDE BUJUMBURA CITY MARKET*
4. *Qu'est-ce que se passe à Bujumbura après 18 heures*
5. *Et pour moins d'un dollar, je déjeune au Burundi*
6. *Last Friday in Bujumbura*
7. *Une decouverte au Cinema...Une soiree a l'IFB*
8. *EAST AFRICAN SALON*
9. *Qu'est-ce font les Asiatique en Afrique*
10. *Le transport au Burundi, c'est un probleme a resoudre*
11. *5 FEVRIER... La fete de l'Unite*
12. *Une rencontre avec Lolilo SIMBA... Il est toujours plus intersant que vous le croyais !*
13. *Tout savoir sur Agathon Rwasa et sa partie politique CNL [ELECTIONS2020]*
14. *Une rencontre avec le vloggeur Javed Admed*
15. *Sur la passerelle a Bujumbura*
16. *La façon la plus amusante de visiter Bujumbura*
17. *Dans un marché de fleurs dans le magnifique centre-ville de Bujumbura*
18. *La seule chapelle catholique de l'histoire de la visite du Pape Jean-Paul II au Burundi*
19. *Ma toute première fois à la Cathédrale Regina Mundi de Bujumbura*

### Other videos

1. *J'ai eu un certificat de merite... Waouh !*
2. *Le collège Alfajiri de Bukavu, pourquoi il faut le visiter*
3. *Selena VS Justin - Yummy VS Rare, les Tube de l'annee*
4. *CORONAVIRUS... 3 conseils pour se prevenir contre ce virus*
5. *Funniest Basketball game*
6. *Welcoming new year in Kampala*
7. *Welcoming Santa in Kampala*

## =Notes and references

1. ↑ Cishugi, Amini. "musical.ly - @AminiCishugi - Fan base", *musical.ly*. Retrieved on 20 April 2018.
2. ↑ *"Amini Cishugi's YouTube channel"*, YouTube. (Retrieved 1 march 2020)

## Social Media

* Official Twitter
* Official Facebook page
* Amini Cishugi's Instagram
* Amini Cishugi's official Wattpad Profile]
* Amini Cishugi Wikipedia Page