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Chika Oduah

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Africa, Nigeria
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Journalist•Dancer•Cultural Researcher•Poet Exploring, dancing, documenting life in Africa • IG:chika_the_explorer • Founder @ZikoraMediaArts @Zikora_Diaspora
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Senegal’s unity isn’t just for AFCON - it’s off the football field, too

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By Chika Oduah Verified
| Medium
As Senegal continues to celebrate its success at AFCON 2026, I am reminded that Senegal is truly the most united country I have ever seen. This is a nation where the people have transcended ethnic lines to embrace patriotism. By Chika Oduah On Wednesday night, the streets of Senegal were lit.
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Sisterhood in Senegal

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By Chika Oduah Verified
| Essence Verified
On a breezy Thursday evening, Queen Shaydonna “Queen Shay” Haynesworth and her friend Mia “Gigi” Davis are eating a delicious meal of thiébou guinaar (“rice with chicken,” in Senegal’s Wolof language) at the dining table in their home in Toubab Dialaw, a quiet beach town in Senegal. As they enjoy dinner on their patio, joined by Davis’s boyfriend and Haynesworth’s fiancé, they can hear birds merrily chirping.
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NIGERIANS THROW THE BEST PARTIES IN ATLANTA

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By Chika Oduah Verified
| ourdiasporastories.com
By Chika Oduah …family parties, that is. The ones where your little brother is following you around with snot in his nose, asking you if he can eat another round of puff-puff while he’s still chomping on the one in his mouth. The ones where uncles come up and grab your hands, take you out on the dance floor and say, “Chai! You’re a fine gal!” with an enormous laugh, a jiggling belly and a charm that could melt ice.
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