Kunle Adewale

In 2014, Kunle was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize organised by The Varkey Foundation (UK). In 2015, he had the honour of meeting President Barack Obama through his Mandela Washington Fellowship award for Young African Leaders in Washington D.C. He was specially recognised by The Smithsonian Institution and was named ‘Young African Ambassador for Art and Culture’ by The Arts Council of New Orleans, Louisiana (US). For his work as an international advocate for people living with cancer and sickle cell anaemia, he received the 2016 Commonwealth Youth Worker Award (UK). In 2018, Kunle was nominated for JCI’s Outstanding Young Persons of Nigeria, Cultural Achievement Category. Most recently, he was shortlisted by the World Bank as one of the 68 ‘Social Inclusion Heroes’ from all over the world, and he was the only one from Nigeria. In August 2019, he was honoured by the Mayor of Cincinnati, United States, and every August 2 is now proclaimed as ‘Kunle Adewale Day’.