In honour of Komla African scribes should lead renaissance

The late BBC broadcaster Komla Dumor.

The late BBC broadcaster Komla Dumor. The Komla Dumor Award is about fostering excellent African journalist. PHOTO | COURTESY

Somehow the only news we watch on the TV at home is offered by the Tanzanian Broadcasting Corporation or any one of several Kenyan stations that the person who holds The Power chooses. As a result, I have been on an imposed “news diet” for a few years now.

It is nothing serious, just a touch of burnout with a soupçon of ennui for flavour. There are newspapers, too, but I am a decade past my paper-chasing days and I have noticed the click-bait flavour of headlines and I don’t like it.