And then they were twelve
Jul 13, 2006
Five girls’ dreams ended last week when they were eliminated in the first semi-final of the 2006 Nokia Face of Africa.
By Kalungi Kabuye
Five girls’ dreams ended last week when they were eliminated in the first semi-final of the 2006 Nokia Face of Africa.
Dreamy-eyed Zuhura, who had never travelled out of Tanzania, did not go further than the Okavango Delta tourist area of Botswana. Together with Selamawit Adamu from Ethiopia and Chipo Ngoyi from Zambia, they are the only first-round-pick semi-finalists to be eliminated. The other three girls were runners-up.
The second Kenyan representative, Gertrude Ogada, will probably go back to study law after she was eliminated, together with South Africa’s second girl, Phumelele Mtshali.
Zambia’s runner-up, Mulenga Mubanga, at 17, turned tables on her colleague. She will take part in the second semi-final in Cape Town.
Others who are in the second semi-final, which will take place during the Nokia Cape Town fashion week, include Uganda’s Muniirah Namakula, 21, 5’11â€; Aisha Danjuma, 22, 1.76m (5’9â€) and Ishioma Onyebo, 18, from Nigeria.
Others are Andenyi Anjalo, 21, from Kenya, Catherine Hemans-Yankey from Ghana, Deline Maiyiwa, 21, from Zimbabwe, Kea Basima, 19, from Botswana, melody Zulu, 21, 1.82m (6’), Mirash, 21, from Ghana, Sandra Bigirimana, 18, from Burundi and Venantia Otto, 18, from Namibia.
The 12 girls are competing with professional models at the Cape Town Fashion Week, which began on Tuesday and ends on saturday. For each booking a girl makes she earns points. At the end, the two girls with the least points will be eliminated, while the rest will proceed to the finals to be held in Sun City, South Africa, on August 13.
The winner will get a three-year modelling contract worth $150,000 with New York’s Elite Model Management.
Five girls’ dreams ended last week when they were eliminated in the first semi-final of the 2006 Nokia Face of Africa.
Dreamy-eyed Zuhura, who had never travelled out of Tanzania, did not go further than the Okavango Delta tourist area of Botswana. Together with Selamawit Adamu from Ethiopia and Chipo Ngoyi from Zambia, they are the only first-round-pick semi-finalists to be eliminated. The other three girls were runners-up.
The second Kenyan representative, Gertrude Ogada, will probably go back to study law after she was eliminated, together with South Africa’s second girl, Phumelele Mtshali.
Zambia’s runner-up, Mulenga Mubanga, at 17, turned tables on her colleague. She will take part in the second semi-final in Cape Town.
Others who are in the second semi-final, which will take place during the Nokia Cape Town fashion week, include Uganda’s Muniirah Namakula, 21, 5’11â€; Aisha Danjuma, 22, 1.76m (5’9â€) and Ishioma Onyebo, 18, from Nigeria.
Others are Andenyi Anjalo, 21, from Kenya, Catherine Hemans-Yankey from Ghana, Deline Maiyiwa, 21, from Zimbabwe, Kea Basima, 19, from Botswana, melody Zulu, 21, 1.82m (6’), Mirash, 21, from Ghana, Sandra Bigirimana, 18, from Burundi and Venantia Otto, 18, from Namibia.
The 12 girls are competing with professional models at the Cape Town Fashion Week, which began on Tuesday and ends on saturday. For each booking a girl makes she earns points. At the end, the two girls with the least points will be eliminated, while the rest will proceed to the finals to be held in Sun City, South Africa, on August 13.
The winner will get a three-year modelling contract worth $150,000 with New York’s Elite Model Management.