{"id":73667,"date":"2018-12-28T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73667"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:39:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:39:28","slug":"miss-congo-emerges-winner-of-miss-africa-beauty-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73667","title":{"rendered":"Miss Congo emerges winner of Miss Africa beauty pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Miss Congo, Dorcas Kasinde has won the 2018 Miss Africa Beauty Pageant hosted by the Cross River State Government.<br \/>\nThe contest took place in the early hours of Friday at the Calabar International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Kasinde, who beat Nigeria\u2019s Chiamaka Nnaemeka and Zambia\u2019s Gladys Kayumba to the second and third positions respectively to clinch the crown, went home with $35,000 and a sport utility vehicle.<br \/>\nShe was crowned by the winner of the 2017 edition of the pageant, Miss Gaseangwe Balopi of Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Governor of Cross River State, Prof. Ben Ayade, said it was time for Africans to appreciate themselves.<br \/>\nAyade said that Africa does need the western media to tell its story, which they always centered on poverty and wars.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-635700\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Miss-Congo-emerges-winner-of-Miss-Africa-beauty-pageant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1334\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201d This is a celebration of African beauty, brain and heritage; the world will see what African brain and beauty is all about.<br \/>\n\u201d The judges should come down and look at those things that make a woman truly African; it is not just the skin colour.<br \/>\n\u201cTunisians and Moroccans are light-skinned but they are Africans,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nNAN reports that 25 countries participated in the event.<br \/>\nThey include: Cameroon, Morocco, Tanzania, Togo and Ghana.<br \/>\nNigerian singers Innocent Idibia (2face) and Tiwatope Savage-Balogun<br \/>\n( Tiwa Savage) entertained the audience.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Congo, Dorcas Kasinde has won the 2018 Miss Africa Beauty Pageant hosted by the Cross River State Government. The contest took place in the early hours of Friday at the Calabar International Conference Centre. Kasinde, who beat Nigeria\u2019s Chiamaka Nnaemeka and Zambia\u2019s Gladys Kayumba to the second and third positions respectively to clinch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}