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The Boss Player: Ghanaians remember Komla Dumor 8 years after his passing

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The Boss Player: Ghanaians remember Komla Dumor 8 years after his passing
The Boss Player: Ghanaians remember Komla Dumor 8 years after his passing
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Ghanaians from all walks of life, in Ghana and abroad, have taken to the various social media platforms to celebrate iconic broadcaster, Komla Dumor, today eight years after his sudden demise.

On January 8, 2014, the influential BBC Broadcaster died at 41 in London, having achieved an unparalleled status in journalism in Ghana and on the world stage.

The Boss Player, as he was popularly called, broke onto the journalism space as the host of the Joy FM’s Super Morning Show.

In 2003, he won the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) award for Best Journalist of the Year.

In 2006 Komla Dumor joined the BBC African Service in London as host of the radio programme Network Africa. From 2008 to 2012 he presented The World Today on the BBC World Service.

In 2011 Dumor began presenting the World News and Africa Business Report on BBC World News and early mornings on BBC One and the BBC News Channel. When the latter was relaunched in 2013, fellow BBC correspondent Lerato Mbele was chosen as host.

In December 2013, he was named as one of the 100 most influential Africans of 2013 by New African magazine, with the citation: "It has been a coming of age for Kumla Dumor this year. 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 covered."

At the time of his death, Dumor was the only West African newsreader on BBC World News. In the words of BBC Radio 4 Today and BBC News presenter Mishal Husain, "Komla developed his own unique on air style, seamlessly moved between TV and radio and influenced Africa coverage across the BBC."

He was also described by Peter Horrocks, the BBC's global news director, as "a leading light of African journalism – committed to telling the story of Africa as it really is."

Read below some tributes on social media from Komla's friends, family and admirers today to mark his eight-year anniversary.

https://twitter.com/KorlekieDede/status/1483421332574543874