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BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces an award-winning bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and ...
Waihiga Mwaura. Waihiga Mwaura (born 6 June 1984) is a Kenyan journalist and BBC News presenter. He has presented the BBC News Focus on Africa programme since 2023. He won the 2018 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Mwaura has previously served in various capacities on Citizen TV .
First awarded. 2015; 9 years ago. ( 2015) Currently held by. Paa Kwesi Asare (2023) The Komla Dumor Award is a journalism award launched by the BBC [1] [2] in 2015 in honour of the legacy of Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor who worked for BBC World News and was the main presenter of its programme Focus on Africa .
The presenter of Focus on Africa, the BBC's flagship and first-ever dedicated daily TV news programme in English for African audiences, broadcast on BBC World News, has established himself as one of the emerging African faces of global broadcasting. As a lead presenter for BBC World, Dumor has considerable influence on how the continent is ...
Focus on Africa (TV programme) Awards. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Africans. 2017 - 100 Most Influential Young Kenyans. Sophie Ikenye is a BBC news presenter from Kenya. [1] She is a main presenter for Focus on Africa (TV programme) on BBC World News. She worked in the broadcasting industry in Kenya for 12 years before joining the BBC.
In addition to this, BBC Studios runs an international version of the channel BBC HD, and provides HD simulcasts of the channels BBC Knowledge and BBC America. The BBC's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, Kenya. It is the broadcaster's biggest bureau outside of the UK. BBC Studios also distributes the 24-hour international news channel BBC News ...
Career. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Brown worked on South African newspapers Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail. [3] Early in her career she interviewed Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. [2] Brown hosts the BBC World Service 's Focus on Africa podcast, [4] and has presented BBC Radio 4 's Pick of the Week. [5]
Employer (s) BBC World News, BBC Africa, BBC Sport. Mimi Fawaz is a Nigerian-Lebanese sports journalist, show host and presenter who currently works as a sports presenter on Focus on Africa, a BBC news programme broadcast on BBC World News alongside BBC Africa and BBC Sports. She has worked for CNN, ESPN and ITV Television networks.