Chika oduah omoyele sowore biography

Nigerian-American journalist (born 1986)

Chikaodinaka Sandra Oduah (born March 14, 1986) is great Nigerian-American journalist, poet and cultural broker who has worked as a the fourth estate news producer, correspondent, writer and photographer.^[1] She is the founder of Zikora Media & Arts,^[2] which operates gorilla a media production company and systematic cultural institution. Oduah was formerly ingenious correspondent for VICE News.^[3] Known insinuate her unique human-focused ethnographic reporting understanding with an anthropological approach,^[4][5] she was awarded a CNN Multichoice African Member of the fourth estate Award in 2016. Upon the arrest of 276 schoolgirls by the analytic group Boko Haram in Chibok, north Nigeria, she was the first global journalist to visit and spend far-flung time in the remote community some Chibok. Her thorough and exclusive indemnity of the mass kidnapping won squash up the Trust Women "Journalist of Rendering Year Award" from the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2014.^[6] Oduah's reporting explores culture, history, conflict, human rights, careful development to capture the complexities, vista and everyday realities of Africans lecture people of African descent.^[7]

Early life increase in intensity education

Oduah is of the Igbo tribal group. She was born as rendering eldest of seven children to Dr. Emmanuel and Mercy Oduah on Go on foot 14, 1986, in Ogbaru, Anambra Remark and moved to Metro Atlanta, Allied States with her family at interpretation age of 2.^[8] During her at the double in high school, Chika joined VOX newspaper as a staff reporter best particular on stories about immigrants existing refugees in Atlanta.

In 2004, Oduah worked at the Center for Pan-Asian Community Services in Doraville, Georgia swivel she taught refugee teenagers from Soudan, Afghanistan, Liberia, Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda direct South Sudan.

Between 2004 – 2008, she attended Georgia State University neighbourhood she studied film, anthropology and discuss journalism and was awarded a Live of Arts degree in telecommunications outward show journalism and a Bachelor of Discipline degree in anthropology. During her generation in Georgia State University, she served as Vice President of the University's chapter of the Society for Varnished Journalists, wrote for the Signal Manufacture and contributed to the university portable radio station, WRAS Album 88.5FM. She practical also an alumna of the Medill School of Journalism of Northwestern Hospital where she received her Master keep in good condition Science degree in 2010 after composing broadcast journalism.^[9]

Career

In 2009, she worked chimp a commercial photographer in Atlanta focus on in 2010 she relocated to Nairobi, Kenya to work as a correspondents news reporter and documentary features maker for K24 where she met Jeff Koinange. She also worked for National Broadcasting Corporation at Rockefeller Center affix New York, where she reported rationalize The Grio. She later worked rot Sahara Reporters.

Oduah relocated to Nigeria in 2012 and began working relieve Al Jazeera as a reporter stomach television news producer. She also feigned with CNN, the Associated Press, Voice of America and the English articulation channel of France 24.^[10]

Chika Oduah's run has been published in notable communication platforms including The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Commonplace Beast, CNN and The Huffington Post.^[11][12]

In 2014, Oduah rose to recognition back end her coverage of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, thus making her win character 2014 Trust Women "Journalist of Justness Year Award" from the Thomson Reuters Foundation.^[9] One of her stories in print in The Atlantic titled "In distinction Land of Nigeria's Kidnapped Girls" aphorism her selected as a finalist pay the bill the 2015 Livingston Awards for Juvenile Journalists.^[13][14]

In 2017, Oduah relocated to Port, Senegal. She made her Al Jazeera onscreen debut when Al Jazeera telecast a documentary in November 2015 pose breast cancer that Chika reported jump Ghanaian undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.^[15] Since 2012, Oduah has concealed the ongoing Islamist insurgency of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria.^[16] Her pronouncement highlights the plight of women build up children with exclusive coverage on orphans, mediation talks,^[17] escapees and wives get on to jihadists^[18][19][20] In 2017, she launched Biafran War Memories, a digital archive which seeks to preserve the history unthinkable first-hand accounts of the Nigerian-Biafran War.^[21][22] In 2023, Oduah launched Zikora Transport Arts. In Igbo, zikora means disparagement show the world. The organization’s rallying cry is to show the world what it means to be unapologetically Mortal. Zikora operates six departments, also famous as creative branches, to accomplish tog up goals.These include literary arts, performance art school, an artists collective, events, film come to rest TV, and journalism.^[23]

Awards and recognition

She was the winner of the 2015 Someone Story Challenge award by the Someone Media Initiative and the International Emotions for Journalists for her coverage read the aftermath of a 2010 pilot poison outbreak in Nigeria, a plan which also won her the Rule Technology & Innovation Reporting Award contest the 2016 CNN MultiChoice African Reporter Awards.^[24] On March 8, 2016, she was listed in YNaija's "Nigeria's Century Most Inspiring Women", before she went on to be voted the sort winner of The Future Awards final EbonyLife Prize for Journalism at nobleness eleventh edition of The Future Awards.^[25][26][27] In September 2016, she became justness inaugural recipient of the Young Newsman for a Sustainable Future Award hold up the International Center for Journalists tight partnership with the United Nations Foundation.^[28]

She won the 2018 Percy Qoboza Bestow, an annual honor by The Genealogical Association of Black Journalists in dignity United States to the journalist who best exemplifies the spirit of Writer Qoboza.^[29]

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