Ismaila Alfa
Ismaila Alfa is a Canadian radio broadcaster who has been host of local morning show Metro Morning on CBC Radio One station CBLA-FM in Toronto since August 24, 2020. Previously, he was the host of Up to Speed, the CBC Radio One afternoon drivetime show in Manitoba.[1]
Alfa was born in Zaria, Nigeria to a Nigerian father and Canadian mother.[2] He and his family moved to Edmonton when he was eight years old,[1] and then to Pipestone, Manitoba where he finished middle school and attended high school.[2][3]
He enrolled in the University of Manitoba, where he studied civil engineering but dropped out to tour Canada and the United States as a hiphop musician for almost a decade.[2][3]
Alfa joined the CBC Radio in Winnipeg in 2008 as an intern, and worked first as an audio technician and then a traffic reporter on the morning show Information Radio, and then as a traffic reporter.[2] He went on to host the local arts and culture show Scene and then Up to Speed,[1] from 2013 until 2020, taking the show to the number one position in the Winnipeg afternoon radio market.[2]
After being one in series of guest hosts of Metro Morning after long-time host Matt Galloway left to host The Current, Alfa was announced as Galloway's successor in July 2020, with August 24, 2020 as his first day as permanent host.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ismaila Alfa named host of CBC Radio's Metro Morning, talks about power of 'simple questions'". CBC News. July 7, 2020. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/meet-metro-mornings-new-host-1.5640110. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Bernhardt, Darren (July 7, 2020). "CBC Manitoba host Ismaila Alfa to pull up stakes and move to Toronto's Metro Morning". CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ismaila-alfa-cbc-manitoba-toronto-metro-morning-1.5640312. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lorinc, Jacob (July 7, 2020). "Ismaila Alfa named new host of CBC Radio’s ‘Metro Morning,’ succeeding Matt Galloway". Toronto Star. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/07/07/ismaila-alfa-named-new-host-of-cbc-radios-metro-morning.html. Retrieved September 4, 2020.