Zambian Tv and radio presenter Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya has gained the 2022 BBC Information Komla Dumor Award.
At 25, Buyoya is the youngest receiver of the award, introduced in 2015, and the first of the seven winners so far from southern Africa.
He is at this time a Television host and reporter with Diamond Television in Zambia, where he begun function 5 many years in the past.
The award was made to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC Earth News, who died instantly aged 41 in 2014.
Buyoya follows in the footsteps of Victoria Rubadiri, Solomon Serwanjja, Waihiga Mwaura, Amina Yuguda, Didi Akinyelure and Nancy Kacungira.
The runner-up for this year’s prize is Ivory Coast’s Lindsay Aida Guei, who offers her possess discuss exhibit on Canal+ Elles, an Africa-targeted Tv channel.
The Zambian reporter will expend 3 months functioning with BBC News groups in London throughout Tv, radio and on the net. He will also receive teaching and be mentored by primary BBC journalists.
As part of the placement, he will travel to a nation in Africa to report on a story that will be broadcast to the BBC’s world wide audiences.
“Acquiring out I might gained the BBC Information Komla Dumor Award is a person of the best matters to have happened in my lifestyle,” Buyoya claims.
“I have a large admiration for Komla’s prodigious operate. I have often wanted to be a journalist and I would look at back again Komla’s news studies, encouraged by his potent storytelling and his determination to covering Africa authentically.
“I’m actually grateful to be aspect of Komla’s legacy.”
The judges praised Buyoya for his journalism, his charisma and his passion for sharing stories about the continent by digital platforms.
“We are looking ahead to welcoming Buyoya to BBC News. We are thrilled by his journalistic expertise, and seeing him flourish in the course of his BBC placement,” suggests BBC Africa head Juliet Njeri.
“His dedication to making certain critical information stories from Africa are explained to in a powerful and participating way, makes him perfect to enable to proceed Komla’s legacy – sharing nuanced and detailed stories about the continent.”
