Stormzy donates £9,000 to Harvard student for her Masters course, as he follows Nicki Minaj’s lead with shock gift
Rapper gives low-key donation to psychology student who was looking to raise the £12,000 she needed to study at the presitigious US uni
STORMZY has donated a whopping £9,000 to a lucky postgrad student from south London to study at The Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The grime rapper gifted fellow Londoner Fiona Asiedu the amount online without fanfare after her crowdfunding initiative, #SW2Harvard, was brought to his attention on Twitter.
Now bright spark Fiona is overjoyed to have the £12,000 she needs to cover costs during a Masters in Human Development and Psychology at the prestigious uni.
Stormzy was alerted to Fiona's crowdfunding quest when her friend tagged him on Twitter, asking him to retweet her appeal, which he did.
But soon a mysterious donation from Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Junior — Stormzy's real name — was made on the site.
This cleared the way for student Fiona to start probing the "pschological development of people from ethnic minorities and working class backgrounds."
The act of generosity comes after Nicki Minaj pledged to pay thousands of fans' tuition fees if they could prove they'd achieved straight As.
A rep for the "merky" wordsmith told The Sun: "I can confirm it was Stormzy who made the £9,000 donation."
Fiona's friend has a brilliant idea for thanking 23-year-old Stormzy, which he's keen to go along with.
Thanking the rapper, Fiona's pal wrote: "@Stormzy1 let me take you Nando's for a thank you chicken because this is all you."
He responded: "deal!"
The total cost of Fiona's nine-month study at Harvard is £59,000 but thanks to an external scholarship and a grant she only had £12,000 to raise all together.
Stormzy, who appeared in Noel Clarke's Brotherhood last year, released his debut album Gang Signs & Prayer in February and is supporting Jeremy Corbyn in the upcoming election.
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