Coming after her critically globally acclaimed peace mission in the UN last September, where as the world's youngest Diplomat, she lent her voice in peace-making between the leaders of Venezuela and Guyana. She would be traveling across 4 African countries of Nigeria, Kenya, Namibia, and South Africa from November 2015 and arriving in South Africa in December, focusing on her primary missions.

She has spent the last 20 months doing twp simple things: making the case for girls education in Africa, and telling Africa's positive stories through film.
 
Zuriel has spoken to more than 23 000 children in nine countries about the need to get an education, staying in school, and securing their future.

Some of these countries include Tanzania, Malawi, Ghana, Mauritius, South Africa, Nigeria and Ethiopia. Along the way, she met with one in six of Africa's 54 presidents & prime ministers, to talk about policies to help achieve girls education across Africa.

As the world's youngest filmmaker, she has made five documentary films, and at age 12 last November, she became the youngest person in the world to self-produce and self-edit a film that showed in a commercial cinema chain. 

Her last film has called A Promising Africa has now showed in five countries on three continents - Nigeria, Ghana, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Japan. 

She has been featured on BBC, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and CCTV. She is also the youngest person in the world to be featured in Forbes Magazine at age 10, in August 2013, and was named by New Africa Magazine as one of Africa's 100 Most Influential Individuals in December 2013 at age 11.

Oduwole arrives in South Africa in the early hours of Monday, 14 December, and departs on Sunday, 20 December.

She is an example of what the future of Africa looks like.

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