Published 20:35 IST, October 21st 2019
Atlanta student receives an iPhone from Oprah Winfrey as a gift
Olufemi Yessoufou, a freshman at Morehouse college student received an unexpected gift from Oprah Winfrey after she visited Morehouse earlier this month
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Olufemi Yessoufou, a freshman at Morehouse college student received an unexpected gift from Oprah Winfrey after she visited Morehouse earlier this month to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Programme. According to an international media outlet, Yessoufou received a message from a member of Oprah's team after which his new phone arrived in the mail. The video clip which the engineering major posted while meeting the media mogul has received over 2 million view and thousands of likes.
'Oprah bought me a new phone'
Yossoufou posted another photo of him unboxing the new phone which had a personalized letter saying, “Dear Olufemi, we can't have you out her viewing the world through a cracked screen or a cracked cover. The new camera you're gonna love for sure”. He told an international media house that he was very excited when he found out that the talk show legend was coming to campus. He further added that when she was leaving, Yossoufou and one of his friends ran to her car they told her to roll down the window and explained Winfrey a project that the two students were working on. The two kids' letters requested Winfrey to take a video with her and this is when she noticed that the phone Yossouffou was using had a cracked screen.
Yossoufou also said that the gift from Winfrey has taken a lot of pressure off his parent's shoulders. His mom was so happy that when Yossoufou decided to give his mom the phone, his mother replied saying that 'no that's a phone from Oprah, you got to keep it'. Yossoufou, in the end, added that he hopes to get a chance to work with Oprah on her project he's working on with fellow students called “Adopt A House”.
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Updated 23:50 IST, October 21st 2019
