There is only a week to go before Queens from all over the World join up together in The Gambia for the most anticipated pageant this year, Miss West Africa International 2011. The culmination of a year of Miss West Africa pageants that took place from USA, Ghana, Italy, Cameroon, and many other countries across West Africa and the Diaspora. A celebration of the beauty, intelligence, and charitable hearts of West African women that will be broadcast to a worldwide audience of millions making this the event of the year no-one should miss!

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Shireen Benjamin with UK runners up

Another potential successor to Shireen has been crowned in London, her name is Astride Costa and she is originally from Guinea Bissau. She is now the 2nd Miss West Africa queen crown and destined to join Nina Enharbor in Nigeria, December 2011 in the running for Miss West Africa International 2011. Good luck to her in her reign as a queen and hopefully she would do West Africans in UK proud. Nevertheless, we can updating our Canadian supporters on Nina’s charitable activities and doing our best to ensure she will be fit to return to Canada in December 2011 with the Miss West Africa International crown

Astride Costa, Miss West Africa UK 2010

As organisers of Miss West Africa, we have always sat on the fence in regards to taking in applications from Cameroon as many argue it is based in central Africa, however with the numerous amounts of contestants applying, and the arguments that also support it being on the west, we have now decided to let any applicant that originates from Cameroon make this decision, and we will embrace it if they feel to be a contestant in Miss West Africa. So if you originate from Cameroon and Wish to apply for Miss West Africa Canada 2012, here is your chance, simply click on Apply Above.

Too Blessed To Be Stressed!

Nina Erhabor, who recently crowned Miss West Africa Canada, will join all other soon to be discovered Miss West Africa’s around the World, to then compete for the Miss West Africa International title in December 2011. Nigerian born Nina Erhabor is the first confirmed title holder and Queen to be confirmed for the Miss West Africa International pageant as Miss West Africa Canada. Nina, whose father is the pastor of Redeem Christian Church and her mother is the choir director, has already begun her goodwill work as a West African ambassador in Canada.

The Miss West Africa beauty pageant started in 2008 as an event with contestants whose origins were from all over West Africa, competing for the title in a show that would transcend national barriers in its scope and ambition. Since the crowning of the first ever queen, Amina Kamara from Sierra Leone in 2008 and the second and current international queen, Shireen Benjamin from Sierra Leone in 2009, people all over the World are getting excited in anticipation of discovering who will follow Shireen Benjamin’s footsteps, and even more so, which country she would originate from.

The Miss West Africa brand and franchise was conceived by Nana Tamakloe in 2007. Ever since the first event, the brand has grown rapidly and now has become an international entity bringing a new light, professionalism and a breath of fresh air to fans of African beauty pageants around the World. Nana Tamakloe has also been working with some of the best organisations around the world to promote and franchise the Miss West Africa name. He says, “What I intend to do with Miss West Africa is to have everything well organised, professional, and most importantly of all entertaining! If you are hardworking, show sufficient effort, have respect for your brand, and have talented colleagues, you can become the best. I am taking Miss West Africa alongside the likes of Miss World, and Miss Universe with the objective of letting people know about issues in the West African community, the beautiful women, the amazing culture and most of all, making West Africans proud”.

Nina will have the full support of Canada as well as Nigeria as we draw closer to Miss West Africa International, however for her to be Shireen’s successor she would need to win the support of West Africans all over the world just as she did in Canada. We are proud of our queen, and hope we groom her to be a successful contestant in Miss West Africa International.