10-year-old Nigerian girl interviews American civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson

Nigerian girl interviews Jesse Jackson

Nigeria’s whiz kid, Zuriel Oduwole has added American Civil Rights leader, Reverend Jesse Jackson to the list of world leaders she has interviewed.

Last Thursday, Oduwole, who is youngest person to be interviewed for a feature by Forbes magazine when she was 10  sat for a camera interview with Rev Jackson at the Annual Clinton Global Initiative in New York.

Jackson, who was with the reverend Martin Luther King Jr  till his last seconds before he was assassinated in Memphis – Tennessee in 1968, gave a no holds barred interview to Zuriel on Thursday September 26th, discussing topics including what it meant to him when Barack Obama, a Kenyan, became the 44th President of the United States.

He also spoke on what it was like to be the first African American to mount a serious run for the White House, in 1984.

Zuriel had before now interviewed leading African personalities, including eight  African Presidents, Africa’s richest person Aliko Dangote and tennis super stars – Venus  and  Serena Williams.

Read more: The Nation

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