The British Sierra Leonean journalist Isha Sesay led CNN’s Africa reporting for more than decade \u2014 covering stories ranging from the Arab Spring to the death of Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n
But now, in her first book, titled Beneath the Tamarind Tree, <\/em>Sesay has a chance to explore, in depth, the story most important to her career and closest to her heart: the ISIS-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram’s 2014 kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the northern Nigerian town of Chibok.<\/p>\n Sesay broke the story and followed it for years, despite government obfuscation and waning international interest after a wave of social media activism (remember #BringBackOurGirls?). For two years, 219 of the girls remained in captivity and 112 are still imprisoned.<\/p>\n In Beneath the Tamarind Tree<\/em>, Sesay combines the released Chibok girls’ stories with her own journalistic experiences to powerful effect.<\/em><\/p>\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n To author Isha Sesay, American viewers’ ability to forget the Chibok girls’ plight is symptomatic of a dangerous shortsightedness.<\/p>\n She writes that these horrors should be “right at the heart of the conversation about the global threats America is facing.” https:\/\/t.co\/xHBwf7sN5c<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 NPR (@NPR) July 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n