Dzifa Affainie

Background

She was born with the name Deborah Dzifa Klu. Her father later changed the family name to Smith.

Career

Dzifa"s early education was at the well respected female-only school Saint Mary"s Secondary School in Korle Gonno, Accra, where she learnt the fundamentals of her trade. In 2001 at the age of 21, she joined Top Radio as a radio presenter presenting the News and other programmes. In 2003, she moved to television Africa under the tutelage of Ghana"s most celebrated film maker Kwaw Ansah.

She was the Anchor of television Africa"s prime-time news, Host of television Africa"s celebrated programme Obaa Mbo and also host of Day Break, the station"s morning programme.

In 2010, she joined East.tv Ghana as a guest host on "Celebrity Soccer" a programme created for the 2010 World Cup. After the world cup she went on to anchor East.tv Ghana"s award-winning programme The Late Nite Celebrity Show.

She conducted interviews with high-profile celebrities in Ghana and beyond and her wittiness is legendary. Unplugged with Dzifa is a co-production between IF Media Consult and the Institute of Media Practice.

Dzifa is married to Lieutenant

Colonel(Rtd) Edward Affainie currently with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

Achievements

• She started her television career in the mid-1990s on Teen Beat on Ghana Television (GTV), where she excelled and won the hearts of many Ghanaians as a teenage television celebrity. She has won several awards including Television Presenter of the year 2007 at the Ghana Cultural Awards, Most Promising Television Presenter at the Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie Awards in 2011.