Kodjo Akolor

Kodjo Akolor (born 15 June 1981) is a Swedish TV and radio personality and comedian. He started as a comedian in 2005 and after two years became a regular on the contemporary R&B themed radio station The Voice. In 2008 Akolor became a reporter for Vakna med the voice, a TV and radio show multi-cast on TV-channel Kanal 5 and The Voice radio network, and he hosted the TV-show Kodjos varld (Kodjos world) on The Voice TV, where he combined humor and music videos.

During the 2008 spring, he became the co-host of Talang (Talent), the Swedish version of the Got Talent series, after the producers originally contacted comedian Bjorn Gustafsson, whose schedule was too busy and who recommended his friend Kodjo Akolor. Since 2008, he has also been one of the three regular show hosts on Radio P3's popular morning show Morgonpasset, and he is frequently featured on Kanal 5's RAW comedy club and the high-profile comedy show Parlamentet. In the summer of 2010, Akolor was the host and MC at the largest Twilight Saga fan event in Scandinavia at the Ericsson Globe Arena, featuring Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart, and he has been part of Musikhjalpen several times. In the spring of 2012, he co-hosted a Game of Thrones discussion show on SVT.

In 2014, he was voted the Best Male Host of the year at the Swedish Radio Awards, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Stockholm Hall of Fame. On 26 October 2018, SVT announced that Akolor would host all six shows of Melodifestivalen 2019 alongside Eric Saade, Marika Carlsson and Sarah Dawn Finer. Both of Akolor's parents were born in Ghana and moved to Sweden in the 1970s thanks to his father getting a scholarship to study business. He says his family were the only black family in Vallentuna when he grew up, and it was not until high school that he met others with a similar background. He has a university degree in Economics from Sodertorns Hogskola and lists medieval history as one of his hobbies.