Britain’s Got Talent star Daliso Chaponda has announced his debut stand up tour for 2018 entitled ‘What The African Said…’.

The tour takes in 31 dates across the UK starting on February 8 at Nottingham’s Glee Club and culminating on April 27 at Edinburgh’s Queens Hall. He has also just been confirmed for his own Radio 4 series entitled Daliso Chaponda: Citizen Of Nowhere.

Chaponda has lived in countries where the press is not allowed to criticise the government, and in others with no libel laws where they can say anything. He has been both a journalist and a jaded newsreader. He is the perfect comedian to discuss what the media has become, which he does in his hilarious new show ‘What The African Said…’. 

His father was a refugee who became a diplomat and Chaponda grew up bouncing from country to country. He always wanted to be a novelist, but his family pressured him to study programming and he ended up at University in Canada. During this time he wrote funny science fiction that occasionally got published. He had never seen stand-up comedy until he went to Montreal's Just for Laughs. He eventually moved to the UK and started performing with at open mic nights that let to circuit gigs.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 30 at 10am.

Click here for tour dates and tickets.

Picture by Steve Ullathorne.