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.
Alfa was born in Zaria, Nigeria to a Nigerian father and Canadian mother. He and his family moved to Edmonton when he was eight years old,
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.<ref name"cbc2"/><ref name"star"/>
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.<ref name"cbc2"/> He went on to host the local arts and culture show Scene and then Up to Speed,<ref name"cbc1"/> from 2013 until 2020, taking the show to the number one position in the Winnipeg afternoon radio market.<ref name="cbc2"/>
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.

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