Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, AKA, DJ Cuppy has announced a £100,000 gift under the Cuppy Africa Scholars Fund for African graduate students.
The Disc Jockey made the announcement on her official Instagram page a few hours ago.
She also shared a picture endorsed by the University of Oxford on her verified Instagram page.
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The sum is about 57, 111 990.00 (fifty-seven million, one hundred and eleven thousand, nine hundred ninety naira)
The Oxford University graduate said the fund was intended to “support future leaders from the continent by enabling them to access the necessary skills, resources and networks to maximise their impact.
“I saw first-hand the variances in university life experiences for students originating from my continent, Africa. This partnership means so much to me.
“The fundamental role that the Cuppy Fund will play is to narrow resource gaps for those who need it the most so they can fully commit to pursuing the education they deserve.
“It will support the previously established Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), working across the University ‘to make engagement with Africa a strategic priority for Oxford’.
“The initiative pushes for more African students to pursue graduate degrees at the University, and the gift will allow it to ‘meet the needs of the most vulnerable students, including students with any form of disability or caring responsibilities.”
Dr Anne Makena, co-director of AfOx also confirmed the grant and said:
“We are absolutely delighted that Cuppy is so generously supporting African graduate students here at Oxford.
“We both share the experience of being African graduate students at Oxford and it is a great honour for AfOx to partner with Cuppy to address some of the unique challenges that African students might encounter during their time at Oxford.”
According to Makena, she also wished that the fund would empower graduate students to “continue on to remarkable careers as champions of development in African countries and globally.”
