By May Jesaro (@KiptuiMay)
KTN news anchor Nancy Kacungira, has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.
Nancy was selected from nearly 200 applicants and is set to spend 3 months in London, reporting for the BBC TV, radio and online.
“I am stunned, but also ecstatic upon hearing this news. I am so greatly honoured and humbled to be the winner of this award. I owe it to the continent that I fiercely love and am dedicated to, to do my bit to expand the often dogmatic and skewed narratives that have beleaguered if for so long,” she said to BBC.
Two runners-up for the award were Dee Dougan from South Africa and Paa Kwesi Asare from Ghana.
Nancy has a background in radio and TV in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya and is also an entrepreneur. She is currently a news anchor at Kenya Television Network.