Fellows & Editors
Chika Oduah
- Trip:
- Tanzania 2013
- Affiliation:
- Freelance
- Country:
- Tanzania
- Year:
- 2013
- Find me on:
Chika Oduah, a freelance journalist, has reported in Central America, Africa and the U.S. From her current base in Nigeria, Chika covers the West Africa region for international news outlets. Chika has worked with Al Jazeera, CNN, AllAfrica, NBC and more. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, CNN’s Inside Africa, McClatchy News, Religion News Service and National Public Radio, among other publications. She is a 2010 graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a Master of Science degree in broadcast journalism. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism.
Stories
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Childhood Stunting Slows Public Health Progress in Tanzania
Yasin Issa thinks he is too small for his age. The 13-year-old boy stands less than four feet tall. He wears a thick brown canvas jacket around his petite body and plays...
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Farming While Pregnant in Tanzania
Across Tanzania's multicultural landscape of an estimated 47 million people and more than one hundred ethnic groups, women, wives in particular, play major roles in sustaining family livelihoods. With more than 75 percent...
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Josephat’s Search for Love
In continuing my story profiles on Tanzanian albinos in their struggling experiences to find love and get married (read more here: Love in a Time of Fear: Albino Women’s...
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Jacarandas and Children: Reflections on Tanzania
It’s been exactly three weeks since I left Tanzania and my mind is pregnant with vivid thoughts. I must deliver. On an excursion made possible by the International Reporting Project...
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Fruit for Thought in Tanzania Nutrition Fight
Selemani Hussaini never thought much about eating fruit in the past. The 46-year-old Tanzanian farmer mainly eats ugali, a thick maize-based porridge. Toss in a few cooked beans, tea or instant coffee...
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Love in a Time of Fear: Albino Women’s Stories From Tanzania
{image-1} For reasons still unknown to scientists, albinism seems to be most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. At a rate of roughly 1 to 35000, Tanzania has one of the highest incidents of albinism in...
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