Waihiga Mwaura, is a well-known and a respected face across Kenya journalist and TV presenter has won this year’s BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Waihiga Mwaura is one of Kenya’s most-watched evening news bulletin on Citizen TV.
As part of the prize, he will spend three months at the BBC in London and travel back to the continent to report on a story there.
The award was created to honour Komla Dumor, a presenter for BBC World News, who died suddenly aged 41 in 2014.
Mr Mwaura is the fourth winner of the award, after Ugandan Nancy Kacungira won the inaugural prize in 2015, followed by Nigerians Didi Akinyelure and Amina Yuguda.
