A 14-year-old education advocate and film maker, Zuriel Oduwole, who has interviewed 18 Presidents and Prime Ministers, has written about her experience at the ongoing 71st U.N General Assembly.
Miss Oduwole, who is an American of Nigerian and Mauritian descent, on Friday took to her Facebook page to speak on her experience when she was invited by some world leaders to hear her ideas at the UN General Assembly.
The teenager, whose advocacy has made her the youngest person to be profiled by Forbes, stated that “I still don’t understand a lot of things, but I am enjoying myself, and also learning a lot.”
See her message below
Miss Oduwole was born in Los Angeles, California in 2002 to a Nigerian father and a Mauritian mother. And in November 2014, at age 12, she became the world’s youngest filmmaker to have a self-produced and self-edited work after her film showed in two movie chains and then went on to screen in Ghana, England, South Africa, and Japan.
Oduwole has met with 19 Presidents and Prime Ministers in line with her education advocacy work.
Some of these include the leaders of Jamaica, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Liberia, South Sudan, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Guyana and Namibia.
She has also appeared in popular television stations including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, BBC and CNN.
In 2013, Oduwole was listed in the New African Magazine’s list of “100 Most Influential People in Africa”.
