Miss Sierra Leone USA Talks Miss International 2014 - Queens of Africa

Hello world!!!

I hope you and yours are doing well. I'm doing well, thanks be to God. The Miss International Pageant is an annual international beauty pageant held since 1960. Miss International is part of the Big Four international beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Earth, and Miss Universe. The 54th edition of Miss International will be held in Tokyo, Japan on November 11th. The current Miss International titleholder is Bea Rose Santiago from Philippines.

Miss International 2014 Bea Rose Santiago from Philippines

This pageant has a history of not being friendly to Black beauties, and there has been a significantly low number of Black women chosen to be semifinalists. The first woman with some African ancestry to be awarded the title of Miss International was Jeymmy Paola Vargas from Colombia in 2004; she is mixed. In the 54-year existence of the Miss International pageant, no African nation has ever been awarded the title of Miss International.  The highest placement of an African country at this pageant was in 1996; Miss International Tunisia 1996 Ibticem Lahmar placed first runner-up. The Republic of Sierra Leone has never been represented at the Miss International pageant.

FIRST Miss International with African ancestry: Miss International 2004 Jeymmy Vargas from Colombia

There are only four women representing the continent of Africa in this year's edition of the Miss International pageant. Below is a list of the contestants representing African nations:

EGYPT

Miss International Egypt 2014

Miss International Egypt Perihan Fateen

GABON

Miss International Gabon 2014

Miss International Gabon Maggaly Nguema

MAURITIUS

Miss International Mauritius 2014

Miss International Mauritius Shiksha Matabadul

ZAMBIA

Miss International Zambia 2014

Miss International Zambia Mercy Mukwiza

Good luck to the African queens, as well as my home country girl, Miss International USA 2014 Samantha Brooks.

Ruby B. Johnson,

Your Miss Sierra Leone USA.

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