Chika Oduah

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

Oduah relocated to Nigeria in 2012 and began working with Al Jazeera as a reporter and television news producer. She also worked with CNN, the Associated Press, Voice of America and the English language channel of France 24.

Chika Oduah's work has been published in notable media platforms including The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The Daily Beast, CNN and The Huffington Post.

In 2014, Oduah rose to recognition after her coverage of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, thus making her win the 2014 Trust Women "Journalist of The Year Award" from the Thomson Reuters Foundation. One of her stories published in The Atlantic titled "In the Land of Nigeria's Kidnapped Girls" saw her selected as a finalist of the 2015 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists.

In 2017, Oduah relocated to Dakar, Senegal. She made her Al Jazeera onscreen debut when Al Jazeera broadcast a documentary in November 2015 about breast cancer that Chika reported alongside Ghanaian undercover investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Since 2012, Oduah has covered the ongoing Islamist insurgency of Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. Her reporting highlights the plight of women and children with exclusive coverage on orphans, mediation talks, escapees and wives of jihadists In 2017, she launched Biafran War Memories, a digital archive which seeks to preserve the history and first-hand accounts of the Nigerian-Biafran War.

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