BBC to establish foundation in Komla’s memory

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K Ansah 10 years ago

Can we read it from BBC itself and not some unknown face called Nicholas Opoku!

Can we read it from BBC itself and not some unknown face called Nicholas Opoku!
Okukuseku 10 years ago

Please can we then talk of Komla's relationship with Jesus is his lifetime which is the only way he can enter heaven not BBC and focus on Africa. where did he worship and how did he help in the spread of the gosple? All what ...
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Please can we then talk of Komla's relationship with Jesus is his lifetime which is the only way he can enter heaven not BBC and focus on Africa. where did he worship and how did he help in the spread of the gosple? All what we have been saying so far cannot take him to heaven.
ANGEL 10 years ago

TALK ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

TALK ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Tunabu 10 years ago

Angel, will you please go back to heaven where angels belong and leave us earthlings alone to sort ourselves out?

Angel, will you please go back to heaven where angels belong and leave us earthlings alone to sort ourselves out?
Pelicles 10 years ago

Leave the dead man alone. Whether he knows Christ or whatever, is not your business. How close are you with Komla Dumor and how do you know whether he goes to church or whatever? Why do some of think that going to church a ...
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Leave the dead man alone. Whether he knows Christ or whatever, is not your business. How close are you with Komla Dumor and how do you know whether he goes to church or whatever? Why do some of think that going to church alone is a way of entering heaven? Do you remember the Samaritan story in the bible?
Shabi 10 years ago

Okukuseku, who the hell are you to determine how Komla, or for that matter, any human being can enter heaven? Are you Gods spokesman or what? And if so who appointed you?

For some of you just-arrived Christians, you have g ...
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Okukuseku, who the hell are you to determine how Komla, or for that matter, any human being can enter heaven? Are you Gods spokesman or what? And if so who appointed you?

For some of you just-arrived Christians, you have got it all wrong.

As far as I am concerned, Komla, without a whisper or reference to any Biblical chapter, verse, saint or hymn, has done more than any Pope, Bishop, Pastor or damned Overseer to show what righteousness and humility is all about.

Just by the simple example of his humble life, many millions and perhaps billions of people around the world, Christians and non-Christians alike, may have been exposed to and have been impressed by his quality of life. Many of these people may therefore aspire to or wish to take after him and live their lives in the same way he did. This is what is Godly and not your by-force type of Christianity which is hypocritical pretentious.

What again do you mean by saying that "All what we have been saying so far cannot take him to heaven." With what authority are you saying this? Are you some kind of immigration Officer to Heavens domain? The impudence of some of you Christian up-starts is simply unbelievable - if not out-rightly annoying and sinful.

In the same way that I am not interested in what church you go to or what kind of relationship you have with your God, it is also none of your damned business to know what kind of relationship Komla had with his God or what Church he goes to. Period! There are many roads leading to the heart of God. Anyone may choose the road most suitable or convenient for them. This level of spiritual arrogance can only be sinful and wrong in the eyes of God.

Now get a grip of yourself and stop behaving, like many pseudo-Christians of today seem to do, as if you think God is some kind of fool. By your presumptuous and stark ignorance of spiritual matters, some of you demean and desecrate the image of God on a daily basis. But I know He will forgive you because He knows that you know not what you do.
ELINAM 10 years ago

Will all Chinese and Japanese go to hell after feeding our lazy selves with rice, and clothed our lazy nakedness with their toil and provided cheap automobiles for us, while we "christians in Ghana hardly could do for self?

Will all Chinese and Japanese go to hell after feeding our lazy selves with rice, and clothed our lazy nakedness with their toil and provided cheap automobiles for us, while we "christians in Ghana hardly could do for self?
bee 10 years ago

oh elinam my darling, say it again.

oh elinam my darling, say it again.
Shabi 10 years ago

Good points you raised Elinam.

On reflection after reading your contribution, I actually begun to wonder if there was something inherently wrong with Christianity. Could it be that Christianity induces laziness?

Those ...
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Good points you raised Elinam.

On reflection after reading your contribution, I actually begun to wonder if there was something inherently wrong with Christianity. Could it be that Christianity induces laziness?

Those people who introduced the distorted form of Christianity here in this part of the world on the untruthful excuse that they wanted to bring God closer to us the 'savage and backward native Africans' as they describe us, were also so lazy that they eventually enslaved us and carried millions of our brothers and sisters away to their countries to go and do their dirty work for them.

As it turned out, they did not actually come here to bring God to us at all. It eventually turned out that they were looking for material things like gold, silver, diamonds, human beings as slaves and lands to - politely put, misappropriate.

In most other countries where Christianity was not in existence and not strongly introduced - such China, Japan, Russia etc, they worked hard for themselves and succeeded in achieving huge and monumental levels of development for themselves. As human as they are, the levels of crime, corruption, cheating, immorality, social depravity such as racism, homosexuality, drugs, pornography, adultery, bestiality, public indiscipline and lawlessness, disrespect for one another and so on and so forth are at a tolerable and manageable minimum.

On the contrary, we cannot say so for those countries who brought Christianity to us and what we have become as a result.
bee 10 years ago

shabi the master contributer :) thats my boy/girl...hehehe.

shabi the master contributer :) thats my boy/girl...hehehe.
ELINAM 10 years ago

LET'S REASON.
Spiritualism leads to God,while poverty leads one to religion where he/she is kept poorer for the growth of the religion.

LET'S REASON.
Spiritualism leads to God,while poverty leads one to religion where he/she is kept poorer for the growth of the religion.
KOFI 10 years ago

where he worship can not take him to heaven, pls note that

where he worship can not take him to heaven, pls note that
Kelvin Lawson 10 years ago

Try to establish a foundation in Dumor's memory for aspiring African journalists he is one of a kind

Try to establish a foundation in Dumor's memory for aspiring African journalists he is one of a kind
Mickey 10 years ago

To talk about Komla' relationship with Jesus Christ is not our business as human. Have we talked about our first? May His soul rest in peace @ Okukuseku and Angel!!!!!

To talk about Komla' relationship with Jesus Christ is not our business as human. Have we talked about our first? May His soul rest in peace @ Okukuseku and Angel!!!!!
Cantankerous 10 years ago

The nonsense the poor man had to suffer at BBC. No wonder he suffered a heart attack. Any gesture from the BBC is a mockery of the memory of Dumor. As for the local dimwits who continue to worship the BBC we can only pity the ...
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The nonsense the poor man had to suffer at BBC. No wonder he suffered a heart attack. Any gesture from the BBC is a mockery of the memory of Dumor. As for the local dimwits who continue to worship the BBC we can only pity them for their ignorance.
Shabi 10 years ago

After stressing the great guy to death, they (the BBC) now want to exploit the death of Komla Dumor to set up another imperialist foundation to train vulnerable African journalists to take after their misleading and nation-wr ...
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After stressing the great guy to death, they (the BBC) now want to exploit the death of Komla Dumor to set up another imperialist foundation to train vulnerable African journalists to take after their misleading and nation-wrecking misinformation schemes about Africa.

Even just days before his death, Komla himself had confessed by social networking to the terrible and miserable time he was going through at the BBC. He had to live through it because his own country could not offer him the necessary opportunities where he could fully express his outstanding talent for commensurate benefit.

This is so because imperialist organizations like the BBC had among other devious crimes against humanity and history, assisted in defaming and overthrowing the only person who could have made Ghana as good and possibly, a better a country than Britain, where Komla died.

Readers will recall that on February 24, 1966, the BBC announced the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah even before their despicable rats and cockroaches in Ghana had announced their historical crime on Ghana's GBC radio. The complicity is obvious.

The British and the BBC, may not have noticed it but the world has moved on - even if marginally and discreetly, from the days when the BBC was established to broadcast to keep millions of colonial 'subjects' of the British Empire in line and in total and undemocratic subservience to their unelected Kings and Queens.

If the BBC truly means well with their proposed Komla Dumor Foundation, then I dare them to establish it in Komla Dumor's Ghana for African journalists and to have as their core curriculum, orientation or funding, the training of African journalists to combat the vicious misdemeanors and menace of global cultural and political imperialism that continues to hound and suppress the genuine development of Africa. This would be the most befitting and lasting memorial to the great Komla Dumor who was not an avid Nkrumaist for nothing.
Panucci 10 years ago

You Africans are a joke. Do you think working for an Oyinbo organization is easy? He probably did not know having worked in Ghana most of his life. Oyinbo are plain evil. Working with them is plain hell. They are dangerousl ...
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You Africans are a joke. Do you think working for an Oyinbo organization is easy? He probably did not know having worked in Ghana most of his life. Oyinbo are plain evil. Working with them is plain hell. They are dangerously competitive and also cut-throat. It is ridiculous we are measuring his success by this association with the bbc. I'd rather would like to hear more about his contribution in Ghana. Fuck the BBC.
ELINAM 10 years ago

They cleverly stab you in the back and turned around and smile at you and if you are not suspecting and think deeply, you could hardly see them as your enemies.
Africans need to reverse engineer and thoroughly learn these ...
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They cleverly stab you in the back and turned around and smile at you and if you are not suspecting and think deeply, you could hardly see them as your enemies.
Africans need to reverse engineer and thoroughly learn these anti-African Europeans.
ManBelhomme 10 years ago

Drowned in tears of of sorrows
I mourn you Komla,
Your humble appearance
Though fortified by intellect
Attracted and enlivened the lives
Of all who passed you by.
Inspiration ? became you the very source
Humility ? a d ...
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Drowned in tears of of sorrows
I mourn you Komla,
Your humble appearance
Though fortified by intellect
Attracted and enlivened the lives
Of all who passed you by.
Inspiration ? became you the very source
Humility ? a down to earth
Intelligence ? you glowed in the dark.
What Your weighty heart failed to carry,
Would be carried in your stead.
You have achieved most in the least of time
Time would carry you to eternity Dumor
Rest and be one with PEACE.
KANE 10 years ago

MEANWHILE, WHERE'S KOMLA DUMOR'S WIFE IN ALL OF THESE.

SHE HASN'T EVEN COME OUT ONE SECOND TO THANK THE MILLIONS SHARING IN HER BEREAVEMENT.

WHERE'S MRS DUMOR?

MEANWHILE, WHERE'S KOMLA DUMOR'S WIFE IN ALL OF THESE.

SHE HASN'T EVEN COME OUT ONE SECOND TO THANK THE MILLIONS SHARING IN HER BEREAVEMENT.

WHERE'S MRS DUMOR?
KANE 10 years ago

MEANWHILE, WHERE'S KOMLA DUMOR'S WIFE IN ALL OF THESE.

SHE HASN'T EVEN COME OUT ONE SECOND TO THANK THE MILLIONS SHARING IN HER BEREAVEMENT.

WHERE'S MRS DUMOR, KOMLA'S WIFE?

MEANWHILE, WHERE'S KOMLA DUMOR'S WIFE IN ALL OF THESE.

SHE HASN'T EVEN COME OUT ONE SECOND TO THANK THE MILLIONS SHARING IN HER BEREAVEMENT.

WHERE'S MRS DUMOR, KOMLA'S WIFE?
Shabi 10 years ago

Kane, be civil and compassionate. Have you not lost a close relation before? Even talking to friends and relatives becomes impossible - much more to address the public.

In any case, the Dumor family have a family spokespe ...
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Kane, be civil and compassionate. Have you not lost a close relation before? Even talking to friends and relatives becomes impossible - much more to address the public.

In any case, the Dumor family have a family spokesperson who has been intermittently coming out in almost all the media facilities to thank and to give a run-down of whats going on and where. Unless perhaps you live somewhere out in the North Pole, you would surely have been informed by that channel.

Why and what do you want to see or hear from his wife anyway?
Senior citizen Br,weig Germany. 10 years ago

Yesterday,I posted a contribution under one of the lead submissions on Ghana web on the death of the late komla Dumor where the Ghana Journalists Association,s chairman was reported to have said among other things that,Govern ...
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Yesterday,I posted a contribution under one of the lead submissions on Ghana web on the death of the late komla Dumor where the Ghana Journalists Association,s chairman was reported to have said among other things that,Government shd help to establish a foundation in memory of our late fellow citizen, and after scanning through the numerous suggessions, both pros and cons I wrote that,the late Komla says Ghanaians should cry for their children and themselves but not him,and buttressed it to the fact that, the BBC as one of the great International Broadcaster has a constitution to cater for its staff including a situation like what has happened to our late fellow citizen, therefore they should concentrate on what they can do in terms of local exigensies and stop making unhelpful suggessions.
kofi 10 years ago

Never ever use comments on Ghanaweb to draw conclusions; Ghanaweb is the home of mad bigots and trolls.
Do you appreciate the purpose of "immotalization"? He was a very very positive example to young and old. He projected Gh ...
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Never ever use comments on Ghanaweb to draw conclusions; Ghanaweb is the home of mad bigots and trolls.
Do you appreciate the purpose of "immotalization"? He was a very very positive example to young and old. He projected Ghana and Africa in a manner that no journalist or broadcaster before him had been able to do within this short period of time. if it's not stupid black man jealousy, why would any rational human being object to such a proposition.
I live in Ghana, and here journalistic standards and ethics are thrown to the dogs!!!!!!
bee 10 years ago

kofi why? calm down :)

kofi why? calm down :)
Maggie yemoteley 10 years ago

I will remember him every day at 6,30

I will remember him every day at 6,30
ateymaggie 10 years ago

Africa need a person like Komla, may the Dear LORD give us some one like KOMLA.

Africa need a person like Komla, may the Dear LORD give us some one like KOMLA.
Panucci 10 years ago

Oyinbo will exploit someone else's loss. Cluleless Africans. We need them to stop looting our continent not this.

Oyinbo will exploit someone else's loss. Cluleless Africans. We need them to stop looting our continent not this.
Asanteman 10 years ago

I THINK BBC ARE NOT ADDRESSING WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, KOMLA WROTE CERTAIN WORRIES HE WENT THROUGH IN THE BBC WHICH I THINK THE MANAGEMENT HAS TO REDRESS THEM TO SAVE OTHER FOREIGN NATIONALS WORKING FOR BBC FROM SIMILAR EXPER ...
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I THINK BBC ARE NOT ADDRESSING WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT, KOMLA WROTE CERTAIN WORRIES HE WENT THROUGH IN THE BBC WHICH I THINK THE MANAGEMENT HAS TO REDRESS THEM TO SAVE OTHER FOREIGN NATIONALS WORKING FOR BBC FROM SIMILAR EXPERIENCE. AGAIN GJA MUST FIND OUT WHETHER KOMLA CLAIMS AGAINST CERTAIN STAFF OF BBC WERE CREDIBLE & MANY MORE QUESTION HAS TO GO TO BBC FOR ANSWERS & STOP THEIR CHAMPIONING FOR KOMLA TO GET STATE BURIAL. I THINK HIS GRANDFATHER SHOULD HAVE HAD THE STATE BURIAL & NOT KOMLA.
Joyce Yaa Gordon 10 years ago

hmmmm May His soul rest in peace. we will forever missed him

hmmmm May His soul rest in peace. we will forever missed him
CHE 10 years ago

In this our communal grief, our collective tears shall flow in unison unfettered by the sockets and ducts of individual eyes to form a lake of hop[e that will cleanse us of the pain visited on us by your sudden and unexpected ...
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In this our communal grief, our collective tears shall flow in unison unfettered by the sockets and ducts of individual eyes to form a lake of hop[e that will cleanse us of the pain visited on us by your sudden and unexpected exit.Go placidly to join the limbless dance with the ancestors for you played your role well and they will be proud of you .
GHANA-NI 10 years ago

BBC's Foundation is far better than the State burial Nonsense, suggested by the GJA, and which the Government is said to be considering.

Whereas Komla achieved a lot and made Ghana proud, state burial must be reserved for ...
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BBC's Foundation is far better than the State burial Nonsense, suggested by the GJA, and which the Government is said to be considering.

Whereas Komla achieved a lot and made Ghana proud, state burial must be reserved for high State Positions like the Presidency. A State Burial, with 21 Gun salute, will be an overkill.

A similar Foundation and/or a top Civilian Award from the Government will be better.
Shabi 10 years ago

I agree with you in toto.

National Awards have been so abused in the recent past that it wont amount to anything much, considering some of the miscreants who have been awarded on the basis of political expediency and sycop ...
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I agree with you in toto.

National Awards have been so abused in the recent past that it wont amount to anything much, considering some of the miscreants who have been awarded on the basis of political expediency and sycophancy. Lets spare the dignity and the memory of Komla Dumor from this demeaning charade and circus. Lets consider something meaningful, productive and respectable.

However we also dont want a 'similar foundation' for Komla as you stated. What we want is a better and a much more meaningful foundation with both private sector and govt support that will attract budding nationalist journalists from across Africa, to benefit from a meaningful or superior category of journalistic engagement and studies. The selected graduands of such an 'experience' will stand out high and tall above all others in their chosen field.
kofi 10 years ago

Komla's meteoric rise

Born: 1972
1988: Began medical studies in Jos, Nigeria, before quitting to study Sociology and Psychology in Ghana
1998: Joined Joy FM as traffic reporter
2000: Hosted Joy FM's morning show
2003: ...
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Komla's meteoric rise

Born: 1972
1988: Began medical studies in Jos, Nigeria, before quitting to study Sociology and Psychology in Ghana
1998: Joined Joy FM as traffic reporter
2000: Hosted Joy FM's morning show
2003: Named Ghana journalist of the year
2006: Joined BBC, presenting Network Africa on World Service radio
2009: Launched Africa Business Report on World TV
2012: Launched Focus on Africa TV
2013: Named on New African magazine list of 100 most influential Africans
ransford sarpong 10 years ago

it's very sad when a humble son's name is mention in the books of the living and there is no response.Infact it's very disheartening to loose a great son at a time that u need him most but all the same all what we can say is ...
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it's very sad when a humble son's name is mention in the books of the living and there is no response.Infact it's very disheartening to loose a great son at a time that u need him most but all the same all what we can say is that may your loving soul rest in the bosom of our lord till death do us apart.REST IN PEACE MY BROTHER.
JONS 10 years ago

FUCK THAT DUMOR GUY.. FOOLS

FUCK THAT DUMOR GUY.. FOOLS
eleanor yayra aku 10 years ago

komla Afeke Dumor...may u rest in peace.hede nyie!!!

komla Afeke Dumor...may u rest in peace.hede nyie!!!

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