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 books, which AT HOME known as his autobiographical book, published in 2016.

Life and career

1996-2010: Early years

Amini Cishugi is a Conglese writer, singer, songwriter, film actor and YouTuber, known for his romance books AT HOME written in 2016, Pleasure of The Spirit and Eyes written in 2017. He was 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 and Georgine Nyahengwa. His father, Raphaël Cishugi, is 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 solo artist and writer.

Writing career

Amini Cishugi is best known on Wattpad and on SmashWords.com 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 best friend Rolande Sifa Fundiko. In 2014, Amini locally published a memoir, Kashofu Boarding school keepsakes, a short story with twenty pages. The memoir leady starred Rolande Sifa Fundiko, Grace Cubaka Kayobo and Christelle Furaha Bahali.

Amini Cishugi and Wattpad

Amini Cishugi discovered Wattpad.com 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 a login account, Amini re-published Kashofu Boarding School keepsakes, a prequel novel that tells the events of AT HOME from the perspectives of Rolande Sifa Fundiko. Amini Cishugi reedited AT HOME on the online literature social Media with 187 chapters, the book received positive reviews from the box, and earn a wide notice for the author's recognisation. It has sometimes been compared to the 'Doll diary' as both books had their start as fanfiction. In 2017, for 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 October 2017 "Pleasure of The Spirit and Eyes" is the most popular Amini's Wattpad book with 1.52K readers follow by AT HOME. The two books won consecutively NDF Awards for the Book of Choice and Book of the Year. 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. Early 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 this year by sharing the sequel book cover art. Amini has written seven books and contributed to many plays (theatres) until 2018. He is now working on a series of poems which will be credited to his upcoming studio album, lifestyle (stylized LifeStyle).