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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 ...
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]
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 .
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.
BBC Hausa was the first African-language service operated by the BBC and is one of the five African languages it broadcasts. The service was launched on 13 March 1957 at 09:30 GMT with a 15-minute programme by the BBC World Service presented by Aminu Abdullahi Malumfashi: a translated version was later read by Abubakar Tunau in the programme ...
John B. Keane. Fergal Patrick Keane OBE (born 6 January 1961) is an Irish foreign correspondent with BBC News, and an author. [1] For some time, Keane was the BBC 's correspondent in South Africa. He is a nephew of the Irish playwright, novelist and essayist John B. Keane .
Ade Adepitan. Adedoyin Olayiwola " Ade " Adepitan MBE ( / ˈædi əˈdɛpiˌtæn /; born 27 March 1973) is a Nigerian-born British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player. As a presenter, he has hosted a range of travel documentaries and sports programmes for BBC television. Adepitan is a disability advocate and one of the first ...
Focus on Africa is a BBC news programme broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel, and on local partner channels of the BBC in African countries. [1] The programme was presented by Komla Dumor each weekday from its inception until his sudden death, aged 41, in January 2014. [2] The programme includes news, sport and business ...