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| Komla Afeke Dumor |
BBC
and former host of Joy FM's Super Morning Show Komla Dumor has died.
The presenter of the Focus on Africa
programme on BBC died, Saturday morning in London after a short
illness Myjoyonline.com has learnt.
Former CEO OF Kumasi Asante Kotoko
Herbert Mensah confirmed the death in an interview with Joy News.
His wife is a neighbour to Dumor in
London and was present when the doctors pronounced the BBC presenter
dead. Mensah would not give any further details on the circumstances
surrounding the death except to add that Esther Cobbah, head of Stratcomm
Africa, and a friend to the Dumor family has been appointed to speak
on the family's behalf.
Komla Dumor was on set Friday evening
when he hosted the BBC Focus of Africa programme. It was to be his last.
He was only last week nominated to be the face of the BBC for the World
Cup in Brazil this summer.
The ace Ghanaian journalist, 2003 winner of
the GJA Journalist of the year, hosted the Joy FM Super Morning Show for
ten years before proceeding to the BBC in 2006 where he hosted a number of
programmes including the BBC World News, Focus
on Africa, Network Africa.
He was the only West African news
reader on the BBC World news until his death.
Dumor achieved his feat in journalism
without a journalism background.
He studied medicine but he changed
course and graduated from the University
of Ghana with a BSc in Sociology and Psychology
and from Harvard
University with an MA in Public Administration.
His unique voice,
passion, and an incredible attention to detail catapulted him to higher heights
in journalism. He had interviewed some of the greatest world leaders, including
former US president Bill Clinton, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
He was married to Kwansema Dumor, with
whom he had three children. He was 41.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
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