Afua Hagan
Senior International Correspondent
A TV news anchor, commentator, journalist and award-winning broadcaster, Afua is in high demand. She is the Senior International Correspondent for News Central Africa.
About
Afua is an excellent diversity and inclusion keynote speaker and moderator. In 2024 she delivered a hugely successful TEDx Talk on Diversity and Inclusion, titled “Too Dark for Daytime TV”. Afua is a brilliant keynote speaker covering issues such as diversity, Black Lives Matter and equality for women and continues to work as an event host and moderator. Clients have included Retail Week, the NHS, Cambridgeshire Police, Compare the Market, HSBC and Inmarsat. After studying journalism at City University, Afua landed a job at Blackhair Magazine as an editorial assistant, rising to be editor after only a year. She became the Features Editor for Pride magazine and a Producer and Anchor for Arise News. After switching to ABN TV, she produced and presented the popular show Young & Rising and launched Entertainment Weekly. A passionate and experienced journalist, Afua also hosted the TV show “Sustainable Energy” for CNBC, wrote a column for The Voice Newspaper and was editor-in-chief for Glam Africa Magazine. She lives and works in London with her husband and her daughter. When she’s not on air, she can be found indulging in her love for African fashion and reading crime novels, African literature and biographies.