Wahida was just eight years old when the US military entered Kabul and ousted the Taliban. It was 20 years ago, but she remembers it like it was yesterday.
“I thought we would finally have a free country,” she told me from Afghanistan last week. But the troops never left, instead, they cemented their presence in the collective memory of Wahida’s generation.
By the age of 13, Wahida began to see more women journalists on television. A spark lit within her that would eventually grow into a passion for journalism and rights advocacy.
