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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