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Here are all the BBC News Komla Dumor Award winners since 2015

Here are all the BBC News Komla Dumor Award winners since 2015

 


Ghanaian Broadcast Journalist with Media General Paa Kwesi Asare has become the 2023 recipient of the enviable BBC News Komla Dumor Award.

The 36-year-old is the eighth recipient of the award and the first to come from Ghana.

The award was created in 2015 in honour of Komla Dumor a presenter for BBC World News who died suddenly aged 41 in 2014.

Dumor was the presenter of Focus on Africa, the BBC's first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences, broadcast on BBC World News. He was also one of the lead presenters for BBC World News' European morning segment.

He joined the BBC in 2007 after a decade of broadcast journalism in his native Ghana where he won the Ghana Journalist of the Year award.

Between 2007 and 2009 he hosted Network Africa for BBC World Service, before joining The World Today programme.

In 2009 Dumor became the first host of the African business news programme on BBC World News, Africa Business Report. He travelled across Africa, meeting Africa's top entrepreneurs and reporting on the latest business trends around the continent.

The award scheme targeted at Journalists from across Africa provides the winner with a three months working opportunity with BBC News teams in London, mentorship by leading BBC journalists and will travel to a country in Africa to report on a story that will be broadcast to the BBC's global audiences.

Here are the seven winners of the award since 2015 before Paa Kwesi Asare became the eighth winner.

 

1. Nancy Kacungira


Ugandan journalist Nancy Kacungira was the inaugural winner of the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award in April 2015, at the time she worked as a television anchor for Kenya's KTN television channel. She is now a presenter, news anchor and reporter at BBC News.

 

2. Didi Akinyelure


In 2016, Nigerian prime-time news anchor Didi Akinyelure won the second edition of the award, the second female and first West African Journalist to claim the BBC Komla Dumor Award. At the time of winning the award, Didi was the presenter of the business news for CNBC, which broadcasts across the continent.

3. Amina Yuguda


Amina Yuguda become the second Nigerian to win the award she won in 2017 while working as a news presenter on the local network Gotel Television, where she has reported on high-profile news stories, including the Boko Haram insurgency.

4. Waihiga Mwaura


Kenyan journalist and TV presenter Waihiga Mwaura was the first male to win the award. Mwaura won while working for Citizen Tv in Kenya as the news anchor for the evening news bulletin. He now works with BBC News and currently hosts the BBC News Focus on Africa Programme.

 

5: Solomon Serwanjja


Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja won the 2019 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. At the time, he was a presenter at Uganda's NBS TV where he hosted one of the channel's prime-time shows. He is currently the Executive Director of the African Institute for Investigative Journalism (AIIJ).

 

6.  Victoria Rubadiri: 


Kenyan TV anchor Victoria Rubadiri became the sixth winner of the award when she was crowned in 2020. Rubadiri at the time was a presenter with Citizen TV in Kenya, where she hosts the channel's prime-time shows.

 

7.  Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya


Zambian TV and radio presenter Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya won the BBC News Komla Dumor Award in 2022, he became the youngest winner at the age of 25, and he at the time served as a host and reporter at Diamond Television in Zambia.

 

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