BBC World TV's Komla Dumor dies at 41

In this file photo, Ghanaian journalist Komla Dumor (right) interviews Sir Richard Branson during the Convergence Africa summit held at KICC in December 8, 2011. 

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• Mensah said, his wife was present when doctors pronounced Mr Dumor dead at the hospital. 

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE

BBC Journalist Komla Dumor, renown for Focus on Africa radio programme, has died of cardiac arrest in London, his friend, Herbert Mensah told an Accra radio station, Joy FM. He was 41.

Mensah said, his wife was present when doctors pronounced Mr Dumor dead at the hospital. 

Before joining the BBC in 2006, he hosted Joy FM's Super Morning Show for ten years and won the 2003 Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Journalist of the Year Award. 

Mensah said, the BBC nominated him last week to be the face of the BBC for the World Cup in Brazil this summer.

A Joy FM report said, Dumor joined the University of Ghana to study medicine but changed his course and graduated with a BSc in Sociology and Psychology. He went on to study at Harvard University in the US.

Among other world leaders he interviewed during his career were former US president Bill Clinton and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

A tweet on BBC Africa @BBCAfrica’ s timeline said “Very sad to learn of the sudden passing of dear colleague, brother, friend and consummate professional Komla Dumor.”

Mr Dumor was married to Kwansema Dumor, with whom he had three children.