Congratulations to Isha Sesay!
The former CNN anchor has been revealed as the first woman to lead the global Black media company OkayMedia, the organisation which owns editorial brands, including OkayAfrica and Okayplayer (the latter founded by Questlove in 1999), which showcases culture across the Black diaspora.
Speaking about her new post, Sesay said in a statement: “This is an exciting company that has long done great work that I have admired. I can’t wait to bring to life all my ideas to expand our content offerings and ways to expose this fantastic brand to even more people in Africa and beyond.”
A bit about her per THR:
After 13 years at CNN—during which she received a Gracie Award for Outstanding Anchor and shared in the team’s Peabody for her coverage of the 2014 kidnapping of 276 Chibok, Nigeria schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram—Sesay left in 2018 and a year later published Beneath the Tamarind Tree, her account of the Chibok kidnapping story. As of 2019, 112 of the 276 schoolgirls remain unaccounted for. Sesay also founded the nonprofit W.E. (Women Everywhere) Can Lead to develop teenage girls in Africa to become leaders. Last summer, following the rape and murder of 5-year-old Kadijah Saccoh in Sierra Leone, she partnered with Idris Elba (a frequent W.E. Can Lead collaborator) and activist Asmaa James to launch The Survivors Solidarity Fund for sexual assault survivors in the country.
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