Posts Tagged ‘beauty’
Of beauty queens and waterfalls
This was meant to be a post a few days ago, but I accidentally put it up as a page. I blame Congo. Two new stories to point out, just in case you feel the need to read them… Here’s one about Rwanda’s biggest beauty pageant, which I also blogged about: From Noses to Hips, [...]
The Rwandan catwalk
The eye of the beholder, it turns out, isn’t the easiest of standards. The beholder can be so…complicated. I found myself in Butare last Friday night, home of the National University of Rwanda, which was home, on that night, to Miss Campus–Rwanda’s version of Miss America. Pretty literally: the winner of the contest, who is [...]
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