Chika Oduah
Nigerian-American journalist · Nigeria · On the map · Journalists · Born 1986 · age 40
Chikaodinaka Sandra Oduah is a Nigerian-American journalist, poet and cultural entrepreneur who has worked as a television news producer, correspondent, writer and photographer. She is the founder of Zikora Media & Arts, which operates as a media production company and a cultural institution.
Chika Oduah is read about 5 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 28 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 96 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Media & music
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In their own words 6
, If you’re a correspondent or if you do any field reporting, you have to be ready to travel. The extensive traveling will definitely affect your personal life.
Biafran War Memories is a lifelong project for me. Most of the people who saw the war are in their mid 60’s and upwards.
There is nothing wrong in using affirmative action to give a selected group of people the chance to succeed.
Awards
About this person
Oduah was formerly a correspondent for VICE News. Known for her unique human-focused ethnographic reporting style with an anthropological approach, she was awarded a CNN Multichoice African Journalist Award in 2016. Upon the abduction of 276 schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria, she was the first international journalist to visit and spend extensive time in the remote community of Chibok. Her thorough and exclusive coverage of the mass kidnapping won her the Trust Women "Journalist of The Year Award" from the Thomson Reuters Foundation in 2014. Oduah's reporting explores culture, history, conflict, human rights, and development to capture the complexities, hopes and everyday realities of Africans and people of African descent.
