Model Spotlight

Here are a list of 11 African models you need to keep an eye on.

Nyakim Gatwech's parents had to flee the civil war in Sudan to Kenya and then to the United States when she was 14.

Adut Akech, the South Sudanese - Australian model has expressed how disappointed she is after Australia's Who Magazine, published an interview with Akech alongside the image of a fellow model Flavia Lazarus. 

As a parent, it is your responsibility to teach your children about proper grooming as it would affect their physical, emotional, and social well-being. Who knows? Maybe these simple skills will give your children the confidence to become top of their class or even get them scouted by a modelling agency.

Today the world’s most coveted crown would be put on by a woman who would become the winner of most beautiful girl in the world, Miss World 2018. This year, the beauty pageant would be taking place in China, where India’s Manushi Chhillar, 2017 winner would crown her successor.

Jennifer Hosten was the first black woman to be crowned Miss World in 1970 from the Caribean Island of Grenada. 

Adesuwa Aighewi  is a Nigerian-Chinese-Thai model who is taking the modelling world by storm. She was born Adesuwa Thongpond Pariyasapat Aighewi in Minnesota and currently resides in Harlem. In a recent interview with Vogue, she talks about how modeling wasn’t something she set out to do initially.

Though she looks like she has no worries, Jourdan Dunn is just as human as the next person. On her Instagram page, she captures travel, fashion and other insightful posts about her life, and one can be led to think that everything in her life is a bed of roses.