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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]
BBC Focus on Africa was a quarterly magazine established in 1990, based in London, UK, [2] and available widely in Africa and in English-speaking countries globally. [1] The magazine covered news, politics, economics, social events, culture and sport, and had access to correspondents based across Africa.
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. [2]
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.
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.
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 ...
In the late 1960s, he joined the BBC, where he was the editor of Focus on Africa and Network Africa on the BBC African Service. [1] [2] Apart from his work as a journalist on African affairs, he has worked in educational broadcasting and on the British domestic culture and arts programme, Kaleidoscope. He is also a published playwright, with ...
BBC World News America: Washington DC: available via BBC News (International), PBS and BBC News (UK). BBC News (International Africa feed) & PBS: Focus on Africa: Nairobi: available via BBC News (International), PBS and other partners in Africa. BBC News (International East Asia) Newsday: Singapore: available via BBC News (International) and ...