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Tomm Kristiansen to be buried Thursday – VG

LAST GOODBYE: On Thursday, family, friends and colleagues bid a final farewell to NRK profile Tomm Kristiansen, also known as ‘The Voice from Africa’.

The former NRK journalist and author will be buried in the Mortensrud church. Tomm Kristiansen died on November 6th. He lived to be 72 years old.

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Tomm Kristiansen died of heart failure, the family said NRK extension.

He leaves behind a wife and two grown children.

To many, Tomm Kristiansen was the “Voice from Africa” ​​after being NRK’s ​​Africa correspondent for two stints. First in Harare in Zimbabwe from 1990 to 1994, then in Cape Town in South Africa from 2002 to 2006.

– Hardly any Norwegian foreign journalist has seen life so consistently from the side of the poor and oppressed. He adopted the perspective of the many people he met during his years in Africa and on his many travels around the world, wrote Harald Stanghelle in his eulogy in Often.

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1993: Kristiansen, right, interviews Nelson Mandela in his office.

There are many who also pay tribute to Tomm Kristiansen its memorial page. The ceremony itself is also broadcast live here.

Journalist and writer Erling Borgen was Kristiansen’s colleague and friend for many years.

– I realize I feel an unimaginable sadness for Tomm’s unexpected death. But fortunately he leaves a strong mark, both as a journalist and as a human being, he added VG the same day it became known of the death.

Foreign correspondent and NRK colleague Sidsel Wold told VG she would remember Kristiansen as an “extraordinarily nice” colleague:

– Tomm had a lot more to give. I am speechless and shocked that it happened so soon. I was very fond of Tom. It was a party to be with, Sidsel Wold said.

I’M NOT AFRAID OF DEATH: – I’m not afraid of dying, but it’s sad, said Tomm Kristiansen in an interview with VG last fall.

When Tomm Kristiansen in a VG interview in 2019 When asked what impressed him most during his career, Kristiansen replied:

– The meeting with Nelson Mandela and the circle around him. Seeing white political life succumb in South Africa. They no longer had credibility. They’ve been exposed and deposed and then there’s a new generation of black politicians who want something else.

Tomm Kristiansen retired when he turned 70. But he was active to the end. Just two weeks before his death, Kristiansen published his seventeenth book, Africa in 200 pages, which deals with the history of the continent from the earliest beginnings of humanity to the present day.

– A person who spread hope and as a person who saw others, Sigurd Falkenberg Mikkelsen, foreign affairs editor of NRK told VG on Sunday.

In an interview with VG 1st September 2021 told Tomm Kristiansen about a dramatic life, who had actually died several times. That he was no longer afraid of death.

– I’m not afraid to die, but it’s sad, said Kristiansen.

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