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Ghana’s Paa Kwesi Asare wins 2023 BBC News Komla Dumor Award
Ghanaian journalist and TV host, Paa Kwesi Asare has won the 2023 BBC News Komla Dumor Award.
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The 36-year-old is the eighth recipient of the award and the first to come from Ghana, after the late Komla Dumor.
Asare is currently the head of business news at Ghana’s private TV3 channel, where he served as one of the channel’s primary news anchors for seven years.
The award was established to remember Komla Dumor, a BBC World News presenter who passed away unexpectedly in 2014 at the age of 41.
On August 21, Media General celebrated the achievement of Paa Kwesi Asare for becoming the first Ghanaian journalist to win the award.
Speaking in an interview with Ameyaw Tv, Asare disclosed that winning the award has brought a lot of responsibility to him because people are inclined to look up to him and he has to put in a lot of work to serve as an inspiration.
“To have won the BBC News award while I’m excited about it, I also feel a lot of an enormous responsibility on my shoulders the fact that you know people are looking up to me for motivation and for inspiration and so it’s a big challenge that I need to to live up to but it’s been an exciting Journey,” he said
According to him, being the first Ghanaian to win comes with a lot of excitement and hopes to be motivated and bring meaningful change and impact in the society.
“You know it’s been eight years running and the award has been won by two Kenyans, two ugandans, two Nigerians and only last year it was won by a Zambian and so being the first Ghanaian comes with a lot of excitement but I hope also that I would leverage on this award to to be able to motivate people to be able to bring about some meaningful change and impact in the society because the essence of Journalism is to be able to make an impact in your Society without that,” he added.
