Author Isha Sesay on the ‘Bring Back Our Girls’ Campaign, Five Years Later | Larry Wilmore Black on the Air

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Larry Wilmore is first is joined by his daughter, Lauren Wilmore, to talk about her fascination with different languages (1:00). Then he sits down with journalist Isha Sesay to talk about her new book, ‘Beneath the Tamarind Tree,’ on the 2014 kidnapping of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria by Boko Haram (25:43). Sesay talks about why she was drawn to the story (35:05), the social media campaign that followed the kidnapping (49:02), and where the girls are now, five years later (64:54). Host: Larry Wilmore Guests: Lauren Wilmore and Isha Sesay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
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0:30.9	Welcome back!
0:32.6	This is Larry Womor, you're listening to Black on the Air.
0:36.0	Yes! Thank you so much everybody, really appreciate it.
0:39.4	Really interesting show today. I get to speak to my old pal Aisha Sassay.
0:43.7	I'm no nice for four years now and she is one of the most interesting, I don't know,
0:49.4	journalists is quite the word but she's a journalist. She used to be a journalist for
0:53.2	seeing an international but she has a book called Beneath the Tamron Tree
0:57.0	about the law schoolgirls of Boko Haram and it's really, this is a fascinating book.
1:02.2	You guys should really go get it. It's a fascinating story and we'll talk about this in some of her
1:08.7	adventures, not quite the word. It's a real interesting conversation. I'm happy to
1:13.2	talk to her. A lot of stuff going on in the world of course but you know what guys,
1:17.3	here's what we're going to do. We're going to take a little break from all the dark and down
1:22.0	and all that stuff and I'm going to invite back to Black on the Air and my daughter Lauren who is
1:27.6	here for the summer. Hey Lauren. Hey everybody. Welcome back to Black on the Air.
1:32.4	Thank you. Thanks for having me back. Yeah and Lauren, last time we had some fun talking about one
1:38.1	of your major interests which is language. Yeah. And I thought let's continue since you had
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