All Hail Dr. Tiwa Savage As Afrobeat Songbird Bags Honorary Doctorate Degree In The United Kingdom University.

The Royal Yoruba Kingdom Songbird, Tiwatope Savage (aka Tiwa Savage) has enjoined youths to be resilient in their pursuits and refuse to be deterred by all negative challenges of life.

Tiwa was addressing graduating students at Kent University in Canterbury, in the United Kingdom, urging them to be focused and more determined in all their endeavors so that their life dreams and ambition would be realized.

Tiwa, from South West of Nigeria, was addressing the new graduands as she was honored with a doctorate degree at Kent University in the United Kingdom during the week.

She traced the history of how she faced many challenges while she was living in the United Kingdom, claiming her life success in her chosen career today as a leading African music star has never been without various challenges.

Kent University is Tiwa’s alma mater, and the United honored her for her excellent works in music and youth motivation, she rose from her teenage years in the University to World stardom and attained international recognition in the field of the music industry

Dr. Savage advised graduands not to be discouraged by life challenges, claiming that her life journey had been laced with various obstacles but that she has been bold enough to pull down those obstacles to breakthrough.

She said in the past, she had failed in a lot of ways and faced challenges, tracing how she was bullied severely in schools while in the United Kingdom, and even ran away from college a few times. She also added how she had faced financial challenges while graduating from the University.

Dr. Tiwa traced the history of how she crossed the hurdles of life tearing through the fences to bag two degrees in her educational pursuits, being the first African woman to win the first MTV EME award, and also topping up as the first African woman artist to be endorsed by Pepsi.

The highly elated songbird dotted her speech with occasional gestures and smiles and won a standing ovation from hundreds of the graduating students and the guests.

“Prior to this time, I used to be referred to as a queen but Dr. Savage from now”, she blushed as the appreciating crowd stood up in an outstanding ovation and appreciation of her passionate speech.

She enjoined the graduands never to give up in all their endeavors and show resilience and full determination in their pursuits, encouraging the graduating students that as long as they keep their heads to the sky, they would win over all obstacles.

“I am thanking friends, close associates, and family members who had traveled from far and wide to share the moment of honor with me in the University watching me as I receive the honor”, she thanked

She expressed her special appreciation to her mum to whom she said she has dedicated so much of her lifetime achievement as well as thanking her departed father whom she said would have been a proud father if he had been alive today and attending the occasion

Dr, Savage thanked her son, her baby junior, expressing her absolute love for him. She said she had failed a few times in a lot of things; bullied while she was in school in the UK, ran away from home a few times, was globally ridiculed a couple of times, and so much faced the principle of finance financial challenges but went on to be a leading figure in a phenomenon called the African Afrobeats. Some called me Queen but it is Dr. Savage from now.

She encouraged the graduating students, advising that in the face of challenges, they should never give up but should raise their heads and win over all challenges so they can be more successful and would surpass her own history and records in their lifetime. 

Savage, now 42 and a mother of one, had bagged a degree in Accounting at the university in her 20s when she lived in the UK. She was one of the 10 alumni honored by Kent University and awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music during the ceremony which took place at Canterbury and Rochester cathedral in the UK.