Nigerian journalist

Chika Oduah is a Nigerian-American journalist. She was one of the first journalists to arrive at the location of the "2014 kidnapping of 276 Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram" and she stayed there to talk to the girls' families about what was happening (Tillman). She gathered the stories they told and wrote it all in her articles. Chika states that she "[draped her] body in a sheath of black, and [her] hair curled underneath a black chiffon hijab,"  in an "effort to blend into northeastern Nigeria's conservative, predominantly Muslim society" so that she would be able to get to the scene of the kidnappings (Oduah). She wrote the article in first person, and used a lot of emotion in order to allow her readers to feel the same grieving pain that the families of the kidnapped girls felt. She made the problem stop feeling so far away by writing the article in a way that made the reader feel like they were there with her. 

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