Outgoing United States Secretary of State, Mr John Kerry recently met with 14 year old filmmaker and girl education advocate, Zuriel Elise Oduwole in his office at the State Department in Washington DC.
Kerry commended Zuriel for the "clarity of purpose" in her fight for girl education in Africa through her 'Dream up, Speak Up, Stand Up' project and film making...
According to CNN report, Zuriel's life was forever changed when she entered a film contest at her school. Her film was about the Ghana revolution. However, she received international praise upon the release of her 2014 documentary. "A Promising Africa" is the first in an ongoing series which will profile five African nations starting with her father's homeland of Nigeria.
Zuriel Oduwole is the youngest filmmaker in the world. She learn how to film and edit online. She is only 14 year old, but she is far from the regular kids that we know. At age 11, she made history as the youngest person to ever be interviewed on Forbes.
Zuriel is a female education advocate and film maker and in 2014, at age 12, she became the world youngest filmmaker to have a self produced and self edited work. "I learned how to produce and edit film online".
She has met 23 Presidents and Prime Ministers in line with her education advocacy. She was also listed in the New African Magazine's list of 100 most influential people in Africa.
Here on this platform Queendaline's blog is to inform and inspire the young people of her generation and generations yet to come. May I say this, if you are living in Nigeria currently or any part of the world, and you have good education and Data access you can start learning. It is never too late to learn or start a new thing in life.
Don't forget Barack Obama retired as the US President at age 55, and Donald Trump became the 45th US President at the age of 70. We all can live a life of purpose.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it"- proverbs 22:6
Photo credit: Zuriel's Facebook page.
