Ghanaian journalist and main presenter of the BBC World News programme Focus on Africa, Komla Dumor has passed away. The TV anchor reportedly passed away at his home in London yesterday Jan. 18th after an heart attack. He was 41.
Dumor joined the BBC as a radio broadcaster in 2007 after a decade of journalism in Ghana. From then until 2009 he hosted Network Africa for BBC World Service radio, before joining The World Today programme.
In 2009 Komla Dumor became the first host of Africa Business Report on BBC World News.
Dumor was based in London where he was the main anchor of the BBC show, “Focus on Africa.” He began working for the BBC in 2003,first as a broadcaster for the radio show “Network Africa.” Prior to that, he worked for ten years in his native Ghana, where he had been awarded the Journalist of the Year Award in 2003. Aside from his presence on “Focus of Africa,” he is known for his talk titled, “Telling the African Story.”
Komla Dumor was on set Friday evening when he hosted the BBC Focus of Africa programme. Last week, he was nominated to be the face of the BBC for the World Cup in Brazil.
A variety of fans and media personalities have taken to Twitter to express their shock at his sudden passing, including CNN’s Errol Barnett, Nigerian publisher and journalist Dele Momodu and Ghanaian musician, Sarkodie.