THE inaugural Miss Africa Zimbabwe, scheduled for April 29 this year under the auspices of Fingers Modelling Academy in Bulawayo, will be held along 10th Avenue, between Fife and Jason Moyo Streets, in the country’s second largest city.
BY SINDISO DUBE
The pageant will run under the theme: Rebranding and uniting Africa, according to Fingers Modelling Academy managing director, Talent Mpofu.
Mpofu said the open-air theme was in keeping with traditional cultural ceremonies done in the past.
“It’s going to be on the streets in April. We thought of doing it differently and running away from the traditional norm that modelling shows are only held in classy hotels. We want to do it in a totally different way,” he said.
“We are doing Miss Africa under the beautiful African sky in an African set up.”
He urged people to come in their numbers and witness the crowning of an African queen, and said that the idea was to empower the African girl child.
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A total of 16 beauties from Bulawayo, Victoria Falls, Karoi, Kadoma, Harare, BeitBridge and Bindura will catwalk for honours on the ramp.
The winner on the night will represent Zimbabwe at the Grand African finale at the end of the year.
“The pageant organisers came up with this idea as a way to empower the girl child after they noted that African girls are usually shunned when they participate in the prestigious Miss World or Universe, not that we are deviating or have anything against these world pageants but we just doing it for the African girl to celebrate being African,” said Mpofu.
He said the competition’s regulations also incorporated interested models with one child.
Fingers Modelling Agency, owned by former model Sarah Mpofu Sibanda, has produced the top-rated models in the mould of Oslie Muringani (Miss Zimbabwe 2004), Lorraine Maphala (Miss Zimbabwe 2005) and Caroline Marufu (Miss Tourism 2006).
