Meet Zuriel Oduwole, an 11 Year Old Nigerian Journalist , Youngest Person Ever Interviewed by Forbes Magazine

She has Interviewed more than 8 incumbent African leaders, including Goodluck Jonathan. Forbes has already interviewed her. It just seems this girl is one of the special ones.

One of the reasons she is interviewing so many African presidents is that she doesn’t believe the usual African leadership stereotype.

In her words

So I could show the rest of the world that Africa has some positive  African leaders who are impacting our countries in a positive way and also impacting the rest of the world in a positive way by either addressing issues or by inspiring other countries as well, because usual when ever Africa is mentioned on the news.

They never really tend to show all the positive things, They always show all the negative things the wars , the famine and corruption and because I have been to Africa a lot of times I see all the positive things  and why they don’t show it on the news.

So I wanted to do something about that problem and in doing so I created documentaries interviewing African leaders.

The 11-year-old on interviewing world leaders from the tender age of 9, making history in Forbes and the importance of education for girls.

SHE’S AN award-winning documentary filmmaker who has interviewed some of the world’s top leaders and just last month made history by becoming the youngest person to be interviewed by Forbes magazine.

But Zuriel Oduwale maintains she is a regular 11-year-old girl who enjoys nothing more than to play her Nintendo Wii and board games with her family.

“I do all the usual things like go to the mall with my mum and sisters and ride my bike with my neighbours,” she says, although she is more than aware her life differs slightly from most girls her age. “I am in a home school-based curriculum, so that allows me to get ahead in my school work and then I have some time to travel for my extra curricular programmes like my Dream Up, Speak Up, Stand Up programme, or interviewing leaders for my documentaries.”