Teenage filmmaker of Nigerian descent, Zuriel Oduwole, has been honoured in the United States. The young girl was featured alongside 27 other people for Black History Month in Beverly Hills, California.
Social media users flooded her comment section with congratulatory messages after she made the disclosure on Facebook
According to the 18-year-old who took to her Facebook page to make the disclosure, she does not live in Beverly Hills but was chosen because of her contribution to the empowerment of the girlchild.
In her words: “I don’t even live in that city. But they count my helping end girl marriage in Mozambique, teaching unemployed women in Africa film making, and inspiring American girls as some reasons they chose me.
Zuriel Elise Oduwole is an American education advocate and film maker best known for her works on the advocacy for the education of girls in Africa.
As a Girl Education Advocate, Zuriel speaks to in-school and out-of-school youths, about the importance of education, showing herself as an example of what an Educated Girl can do. She has now spoken to more than 26,000 in 14 countries including Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, as well as students in the Borough of Lambeth in London – the UK, Hidalgo in Mexico, and in Georgia & California – USA
A Film Maker, she made her first short documentary on the Ghana Revolution at the age of 9, as part of the History Channel sponsored National History Day Competition. Her first full feature docu film at the age of 12, showed in 2 movie theater chains and screened in South Africa, United Kingdom, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tokyo – Japan. Her newest film released in August 2017 was shot in 5 countries on 3 continents, over 2 months.
Understanding Climate Change as a real threat to Education from a planning and content delivery point, she met with the Prime Minister of Samoa, Prime Minister of Jamaica, Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Prime Minister of Tuvalu, President of Marshall Islands and the Prime Minister of Fiji, to learn more about the effects of climate change on their countries education development. She delivered a keynote speech at COP23 on the direct and human geography effect of Climate Change on Education, in Island countries.
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