Oyeyiola-Ourias Oyinkansola Adesewa - SYNW Young Writer of the Month (September 2020)

 

OYEYIOLA-OURIAS OYINKANSOLA ADESEWA - SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2020)

 

OYEYIOLA-OURIAS Oyinkansola Adesewa is an 18 year old final year Mass Communication student of Les Cours Sonou Universitaire, Benin Republic. She is a girl child activist and advocate. She is the Founder of “Girls Day Out with Oyinkan” (GDOWO) a yearly advocacy workshop that celebrates the United Nations International Day for the Girl Child. She is also the Founder of Haywire Street Art Painting, a collective of talented girls using arts to advance the cause of women empowerment.

Oyinkansola is a multi-talented performance poet, visual artist, writer, actor and designer (design clothes and batiks), dancer, model and motivational speaker, event planner, caterer and make up artist. She's as well a radio presenter for kiddies program (Ajapa World) and she is an MC (anchored the ''End violence against children in Nigeria'' in 2016, which was organised by the Lagos state government in  collaboration with USAID, UNICEF,CDC and so on). She has participated in some group art exhibitions (Africa4Her at TerraKulture, National Gallery of Art and Culture, National Theatre (Association for the advancement of women in culture-AA.WC-2016) and Tender Arts at SilverBird Galleria).

She has also performed poetry at MAKE MUSIC (World music day) in 2017. She started writing at the age of 6. Her first book titled “Thoughts of a Child” was published when she was 8 years old through a writing contest that she won. Oyinkansola has won a lot of awards and competitions like the Best Art Work at the National Gallery of Arts Competition, Creative Young Artist of the year by the Global Foundation Award and Young Author of the Year by Child Rights Initiative including other numerous awards.

Oyinkansola is a budding technology enthusiast and she strongly believes that technological skills should be used to empower the girl child in Africa. She is very passionate about social justice and community development.