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Nancy Kacungira wins first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award

17th August, 2015

To some good news now and our very own journalist with a background as an entrepreneur, radio and TV reporter and presenter has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Nancy Kacungira, was selected from nearly 200 applicants. She will now spend three months at the BBC in London and also report from Africa for the BBC TV, radio and online. The award was established to honour Komla Dumor a presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41. Nancy grew up in Uganda where she attended Makerere University in Kampala. She has more than 14 years of experience working across a range of media in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania as well as a Master’s Degree in communications from Leeds University. She is currently the anchor of Prime Time Evening News on KTN where she is also the channel's social media editor. There are two runners-up for the award: Leila Dee Dougan from South Africa and Paa Kwesi Asare from Ghana. Komla Dumor was an exceptional Ghanaian broadcaste
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