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Apr 24, 2022 · Zain Asher's (pictured) new memoir details how after a tragedy her mother's strict regime pushed her and her oscar-nominated brother Chiwetel Ejiofor towards success Within seconds, their car was ...
Apr 26, 2022 · Asher's father died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Afterward, her mom raised four children on her own in a crime-ridden London neighborhood. Asher's memoir is Where the Children Take Us.
Zain Asher. Asher with her memoir at the 2022 Texas Book Festival. Zain Ejiofor Asher (née Ejiofor, / ˈɛdʒioʊfɔːr / ⓘ) is a British news anchor at CNN International, based in New York City. [1] She currently co-anchors the network's primetime, global news show One World with Zain and Bianna airing weekdays at 12pm ET with Bianna Golodryga.
May 6, 2022 · Asher's dad died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Her grief-stricken mother used strict and innovative methods to raise 4 kids. Asher honors her mom in the memoir Where the Children Take Us.
- What Were Some of Those Changes?
- How Did Your Mother Navigate The Teenage years?
- Did These Lessons Help Beyond Your School years?
- How Did Your Mother Learn The Skills She Passed on to You?
- How Did You End Up in Montclair?
- How Do You Juggle Your Job and Parenting?
- Do You Plan to Apply Your Mom's Lessons as You Raise Your Own Children?
When I was seven years old, she started asking our teachers for the syllabi a couple of months in advance, and would teach us the topics at home, after 10-hour work days. I knew my times tables cold while my classmates were still struggling. It made a world of difference. I became a role model, the kid with the most gold stars next to my name. I we...
When I was a junior in high school, my grades were As and Bs. My mother knew that would not be good enough to get me into Oxford. She literally cut the cord on the TV. She wanted to eliminate distractions. Then she saw I was spending more time on the phone with my friends, so she installed a residential pay phone. At first, I just kind of stared ou...
I started at CNN at age 28 as a business correspondent and became an anchor in a year using my mother's principles. Not long after I started there, I went to one of the talent coaches and asked him to train me to be an anchor. He looked at me, confused, and asked me if anyone had asked me to train. I said, "No, I just want to be ready if a position...
My mother grew up during the Biafran war. She had to eat snakes and crickets to survive; she missed three years of school. Her mother taught her kids what she thought they'd be learning in school so they wouldn't be behind when the war ended. She taught them basic math drawing numbers in the dirt with sticks and using donated textbooks. Other kids ...
We were living in Brooklyn when Noah turned 1 in 2019. We knew our family would grow and wanted more space. So many media people live here, including a lot of CNN people. They were like, "My gosh, you have to live here." Christine Romans, who anchors the 5 a.m. show on CNN, lives here, and a senior producer lives on my street. And obviously, being ...
I'm up between 5:30 and 6, juggling screaming children and prepping for the show. It's always chaos before I leave. I have a 45-minute commute. My show is on at noon and then I stay and prepare for the next day. Steve has been working from home since the pandemic, but he travels quite a bit. We have an au pair who helps a lot, especially when he's ...
We haven't really thought about it; my kids are so young (Noah is 3, Louis is 1). Our life is so different. Steve is a very involved and present parent, and though I work a lot, I make sure I'm very, very present with my kids when I'm not working. Our children are, to a certain extent, privileged. And it's a different time. I don't know what the la...
May 6, 2022 · Zain Asher talks to Christiane Amanpour about her new book, "Where the Children Take Us," which details her incredible family story and the tireless efforts of her mother to make her children succeed.
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Apr 26, 2022 · CNN Anchor Zain Asher. When Asher was five, living with her family in London, her mother got a call informing her that her husband and son, who were on a road trip in Nigeria, their ancestral home ...
