By Osagie Alonge
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with MTV VJ Sizwe Dhlomo and youth panellists in MTV Base Meets Archbishop Desmond Tutu with MTN
Archbishop Desmond Tutu the South African peace activist and one-time Nobel Prize winner will be speaking with a select number of African youths on the MTV Base Meets…with MTN inspiring series.
Desmond Tutu will be discussing with four passionate young panellists – Nigerian politics and international relations student Zaphia Ovia, South African novelist and BA English literature and politics student Andy Petersen, Ghanaian entrepreneur and business student Makafui Ayimey and African studies student Tatenda Muranda from Zimbabwe.
Their introspective discourse will cover a number of subjects including peace, tolerance, activism and faith. ‘I was very deeply impressed with my young interviewers. In fact, I should say they made me glow with pride and to feel our world is in good hands: their hands’, Desmond Tutu said.
The program which will premiere on MTV Base on September 5, 2012 will be presented by MTV VJ Sizwe Dhlomo.
Archbishop Tutu (80),was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). He rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as a fearless and vocal critic of apartheid.
