Miss Africa, Calabar

[kymnjoro]

Yes, we won the 2019 Miss Africa beauty contest

Ms. Irene Ng'endo is a 3rd Year student of Mathematics & Computer Science, at JKUAT College of Pure and Applied Sciences.

 

[Nattydread]

How come the contest does not promote the African ideal and instead rewards bones, spindly legs and flat chests?

Oh, never mind, it's because the Northern ideals apply at the higher stages of these contests.

 

[kymnjoro]

@Nattydread wewe ulizoea mahippo,wachana na sisi watu wa mifupa................

 

[Nattydread]

@Nattydread wewe ulizoea mahippo,wachana na sisi watu wa mifupa................

To be honest, I am totally uninterested in BBW.

I like the glorious area between mifupa and the lowest end of plus size. Curves lazima, nyuma a must, belly and tyres, never.

 

[Cortedivoire]

Huku unapeana slices ndio ushinde

 

[Abba]

How come the contest does not promote the African ideal and instead rewards bones, spindly legs and flat chests?

Oh, never mind, it's because the Northern ideals apply at the higher stages of these contests.

Just like religion which was forcefully indoctrinated to us making our indigenous culture and tradition be obsolete. Anyone seen practicing those tradition today is referred to as backward just like you hammered me juzi... You being double standard my friend

 

[Nattydread]

Just like religion which was forcefully indoctrinated to us making our indigenous culture and tradition be obsolete. Anyone seen practicing those tradition today is referred to as backward just like you hammered me juzi... You being double standard my friend

Brother, there's no comparison here. I was hammering superstitious nonsense, so-called visieno.

 

[nakujua]

How come the contest does not promote the African ideal and instead rewards bones, spindly legs and flat chests?

Oh, never mind, it's because the Northern ideals apply at the higher stages of these contests.

The African ideal I thought was thin, all those old pictures I see of African women are usually of thin girls, showing as much skin as possible and in some cases with locks and painted faces, like make up of some sort.

 

[Ssabasajja]

Beauty pageants are meaningless.

 

[Nattydread]

The African ideal I thought was thin, all those old pictures I see of African women are usually of thin girls, showing as much skin as possible and in some cases with locks and painted faces, like make up of some sort.

They were thin because they were workhorses and child-bearing machines. Anybody with a bit of body fat was envied.

 

[nakujua]

They were thin because they were workhorses and child-bearing machines. Anybody with a bit of body fat was envied.

The concept of beauty back then did not involve fat, at least from some of the traditional stories that exist, and also from say the tribes that still have traditional practices, actually the beauty pageants are more a representation of traditional Africa than traditional western societies, the latter preferred their women big and fully covered in massive dresses.

 

[JazzMan]

Just like religion which was forcefully indoctrinated to us making our indigenous culture and tradition be obsolete. Anyone seen practicing those tradition today is referred to as backward just like you hammered me juzi... You being double standard my friend

I've never understood why as Kenyans we never really supported our artists then I went to church. Ile hypocrisy iko huko haina wengi. Some mzee was saying that some missionary, can't remember if it was krapf or livingstone, came and said that the traditional music Africans were making was appealing to demons and if we want to connect with God we should abandon it.

I didn't hide the facepalm.

 

[Abba]

I've never understood why as Kenyans we never really supported our artists then I went to church. Ile hypocrisy iko huko haina wengi. Some mzee was saying that some missionary, can't remember if it was krapf or livingstone, came and said that the traditional music Africans were making was appealing to demons and if we want to connect with God we should abandon it.

I didn't hide the facepalm.

I know . We call that whitewash