Isha Sesay

Isha Sesay is a British journalist of Sierra Leonean descent, and an anchor for CNN International. Based at the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, she anchors the program BackStory. On January 17, 2011, Sesay debuted on Anderson Cooper 360° as the new permanent presenter of the 360 Bulletin. Sesay lived in Sierra Leone for most of her childhood. Sesay was born in the UK in 1976 and is one of three children, having an older sister and a younger brother. Her mother is Dr Kadi Sesay, a former lecturer at Fourah Bay College, who entered Sierra Leonean politics in 1992 as an advisor to the government of Valentine Strasser. Her father, who worked as a legal advisor to the SLPMB (Sierra Leone Produce Marketing Board), died in 1988, and a...