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BBC broadcaster and ardent Black Stars supporter Komla Dumor died on Saturday at the age of 41. Watch Kombla stripping off and getting down to business ahead of a Black Stars game in South Africa 2010.
The ace broacaster presented BBC’s ‘Focus on Africa’ show on Friday night and died few hours later so his death has come as a massive shock to his colleagues at the BBC.
In his last written article for the BBC Africa News website, Dumor counted the Black Stars qualification to the 2014 World Cup as one of his high points for 2013.
“Ghana, my team, qualified for the football World Cup,” Dumor wrote on his article on the BBC’s website.
Dumor was the main presenter of the BBC World News programme Focus on Africa’ having joined the international broadcaster in 2006.
Dumor joined the BBC African Service in 2006 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 television.
Prior to joining the BBC he worked for JOY FM in Accra, Ghana, and was the 2003 winner of Journalist of the Year award given by the Ghana Journalist Association.
Dumor was the only West African news reader on BBC World News.
His grandfather was Philip Gbeho, composer of the Ghanaian national anth
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