Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson on the Chibok Schoolgirls Kidnapping and Boko Haram

In this episode of "Keen On". Andrew is joined by Drew Hinshaw and Joe Parkinson, the co-authors of "Bring Back Our Girls", to discuss the events of the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping, as well as the wider issue of liberating women in Africa.

Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw are Wall Street Journal Pulitzer Prize finalists and nominees who have covered Nigeria for more than a decade. Their work has been submitted for virtually every international reporting award. Two of the newspaper’s most seasoned foreign correspondents, they have reported from more than 60 countries. Their 2017 narrative on the Chibok kidnapping is one of the longest stories the newspaper has published in its 125-year history. It is cited internally as a model for digital era longform journalism. They are both experienced public speakers and regularly appear on national television and radio shows. Parkinson, a native of London, is the Journal’s Africa Bureau Chief, based in South Africa.

Drew Hinshaw is a former Fulbright scholar who studied media and political journalism and has worked extensively with the West African press. He covers Ghana and its neighbors for GlobalPost. He speaks Twi with emerging fluency. Previously, Hinshaw worked as a reporter in New Orleans at a community paper in the Bayou. His first love as a journalist is music, which is why he majored in The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University before working for a few years as a critic. In Africa, his favorite music is Coupé Decalé, from Cote D'Ivoire.

Joe Parkinson, a native of London, is the Journal’s Africa Bureau Chief for the Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize finalist currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa. One of the Journal’s most seasoned foreign correspondents, he has reported from more than 30 countries and his work has won numerous international awards. His 2017 investigation into the Chibok kidnapping was one of the longest stories the Journal has published in its 130-year history and was the seed for his first book, Bring Back Our Girls.