Nigeria's Oladimeji Adisa- founder of The Osun Art Foundation, has been honored by the British Prime Minister with a Point of Light award for teaching people about African heritage in the UK.
Oladimeji has worked with over 500 schools within the United Kingdom with the aim of helping people especially children understand Africa's traditions in Britain's multicultural society.
The Osun Arts Foundation was birthed to create awareness and appreciation of neglected African traditional Arts and Culture, and to encourage an understanding of this within a vibrant multi-cultural society.
Using it's Participatory Combined Arts Projects, Osun Foundation offers presentations that aim to bring children and others in the community closer to African art and culture; giving them the opportunity to touch, use and interact with ceremonial art forms.
The Osun Foundation was incorporated in the United States of America but has since extended it's noble work to the United Kingdom.
Adisa's foundation has been involved with many command cultural performances in the UK, including the Commonwealth Games and the Queen's Jubilee event.
David Cameron commended Oladimeji for "doing brilliant work".
Responding to the honor bestowed , Oladimeji said it was "something special" to be chosen for the award "when there are so many people out there doing great things".
The Point of Light awards recognizes outstanding individual volunteers who are inspiring others.
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