Child-empowerment champion, Seyi Oluyole, has become the second guest to be featured in the new format magazine programme, African Voices Changemakers, on CNN International.
The show is sponsored by telecommunications giant, Globacom.
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The 27-year-old graduate of English and Literary Studies was featured on CNN African Voices on Friday alongside 60-year-old South African, Nokugcina Mhlophe.
The repeat broadcast will be on Saturday at 12.30 a.m., 4.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Other repeat broadcasts come up on Sunday at 5.00 a.m., 9.30 a.m. and 8.30 p.m. with more repeats on Monday and Tuesday at 5.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. respectively.
The talk-show recently got a new host in Nigerian journalist, Arit Okpo.
Oluyole and Mhlophe, who are choreography and dance experts, discussed how they are changing the fortunes of street kids through dance and storytelling in their respective countries.
To achieve her aim of assisting poor children scrounging a living on the streets, Oluyole founded a non-governmental organisation called The Dream Nurture Foundation to provide succour to them.
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She also offers educational opportunities to the children through the NGO.
Similarly, her dance academy, Dream Catchers, uses dance as a way of getting impecunious children back to school because she believes that “every child deserves to succeed irrespective of their background”.
She has been able to engage such children in activities including dance, drama and sports.
Oluyole has also been a scriptwriter for high profile television series such as Tinsel, Hustle and Gbera, a short film directed by her.
Renowned artiste, Rihanna, recently endorsed her commitment to the cause of children by tipping Oluyole’s mentees for stardom.
Mhlophe, a dancer, actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author, sees storytelling as a means of re-enacting the tales of subjugation during the apartheid years and the gains of freedom which South Africa currently enjoys.
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Mhlophe’s career trajectory shows she started off as a domestic servant, later became a newsreader at the Press Trust and BBC Radio, and thereafter became a writer for Learn and Teach, a magazine for newly-literate post-apartheid South Africans.
Mhlophe has performed in theatres in Soweto and London. A good number of her works have been translated into German, French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese, while she has won the Obie Award for Performance as well as the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
