The kidnapped Chibok girls were the identifiable victims of Nigeria's war with Boko Haram islamist insurgents. Drew Hinshaw (@drewhinshaw) talks about reporting around Europe and Africa for the Wall Street Journal while co-writing an award-winning book about the Chibok girls on nights and weekends. We also find out what happens when you wear the wrong pants to cover a press conference with Barack Obama.

Countries featured: Ghana, Nigeria, Poland, Senegal, Mali, Spain, USA

Publications featured: Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Metro, Rolling Stone

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Drew's book Bring Back Our Girls - https://amzn.to/3E7H1OI 

His stories for The Wall Street Journal - https://on.wsj.com/3Cnhgsw

His big WSJ story on Chibok girls being freed - https://on.wsj.com/3SOzOap

WSJ's Pulitzer finalist package on China's influence - https://bit.ly/3LWl6fj

Drew's story on Gadhafi's house - https://on.wsj.com/3RnHbEN

Rukmini Callimachi's al-Qaida Papers series for AP - https://bit.ly/3dT058V

Steve Rosenberg's Lukashenko interview - https://bit.ly/3FNDoeW

Hidden Valley Road book - https://amzn.to/3SSv7wp

Columbine book by Dave Cullen - https://amzn.to/3ft3ag1

Billion Dollar Whale book - https://amzn.to/3ro1cjL

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