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It’s been almost a month since Gaseangwe Balopi was crowned Miss Africa 2017 Calabar: the new ambassador of Climate Change and Migration in Africa. The 22 year old shares her plans for her year of reign. Call her Gase B!  Gaseangwe Balopi is from a village called Tonota in the Central District of Botswana. She is a University of Botswana student who also dabbles in fashion, styling as well as modelling. Her modelling and pageantry journey began when she made it as a Miss […]

Banga Camp was built over 50 years ago and until now, the community had no nearby source of clean, drinking water. Miss Africa Organisation identified the need for a borehole within that community, approached community leaders and a week later, the community at Banga Camp got the means to access clean, drinking water for the first time. The camp has been in existence for over 50 years but the community has never had a source of clean water nearby; instead, they’ve relied […]

Miss Africa 2017 Calabar contestants have been in Cross River State’s Calabar for bootcamp for almost two weeks now. The road to the live event on 27 December at Calabar International Convention Center is definitely heating up as the competition opens up for voting. As part of getting them ready to compete in Africa’s only climate change themed beauty pageant, the 25 contestants have been subjected to a rigorous bootcamp which has included photoshoots, visits to nearby communities as well […]

Angolan beauty Neurite Mendes is getting ready to hand over the reigns to a new Queen as the road to Miss Africa 2017 Calabar 2017 intensifies. We caught up with her to chat about her year of reign. What do you now know about yourself that you did not know when you were crowned queen just over a year ago? I wasn’t aware before being crowned Miss Africa is that I am quite a good motivational speaker – if I do […]

After a gruelling and long process of auditions, Miss Africa 2017 Calabar has chosen 25 girls from as many countries to participate in this year’s edition of the Climate Change themed beauty pageant. Road to Miss Africa 2017 Calabar begins, auditions end Miss Africa 2017 Calabar registrations were received from across the continent via a combination of 60-second videos submitted by hopefuls as well as physical auditions held in six cities across three countries. The girls were assessed by the […]