Throwback To Five Years Of Miss Malaika Beauty Pageant

Popular Miss Malaika beauty pageant is known to be a pageant that thrives on its core value expressed in its tagline, "beautiful inside out" which means they do not only focus on the outside but the inside basically the attitude of the lady.

The pageant show originally used to air on TV3 but now airs on GHOne TV and has brought up amazing beautiful women of substance. These Queens are challenged to create, talk, inspire, lead and influence people positively in their endeavors.

Their various grooming sessions and tasks embarked on in the pageant builds up the personalities of these ladies.

Let's have an up-close of the winners, Miss Malaika, five years ago, the journey so far:

Kuukua Korsah who was a graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology(KNUST) won the pageant in the year 2015 after she was rejected in 2012 by the Miss Malaika selection team. She was the face of GTP fashion and did a great job with them. 

Leah Brown was the winner for Miss Malaika 2016 is a graduate of the University of Ghana. She was known to be a budding entrepreneur who provided ushers, hosts and promoters for events.

Miss Malaika 2017 Queen, Pearl Nyarko Mensah after being discouraged not to partake in the pageant because of her age won the pageant in the long run. She is an Ambassador for people living in the neurological disorder, autism and a movie producer. The queen has a foundation that creates awareness about autism.

Miss Malaika 2018, Mariam Owusu Poku after her successful reign has ventured into modelling after receiving a scholarship to pursue her post-graduate course at Winsconsin University. 

Miss Malaika 2019, our reigning Queen is Phylis Vesta Boison, a 19-year-old student of the University of Ghana reading accounting in her third year. She battled it out with nine other ladies to win a cash prize and a brand new car.

I Will Choose Local Fabrics Among Other Objectives- Nana Konadu Agyema-Rawlings

Ghana's former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings revealed in an acceptance speech after receiving an honorary award at the 2019 Fashion Connect Africa event on December 30, 2019,  that it is her own personal decision to keep wearing our local fabrics than foreign fabrics because for her it's best to promote the local textile industry than the foreign industry.

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings said after receiving the award, “Thank you very much for this award. I just like to say that sometimes when you want to start a project, you don’t know the end results until you get there. When I started wearing my local fabrics, GTP was almost a collapsed industry and I took a decision to keep wearing just local fabrics.”

She recalled how her decision to wear local fabrics went a long way to influence other African first ladies to patronize African fabrics. “So, we went to a conference in Egypt and all the first ladies were wearing their designer clothes and so on. And I came in my very nice (local) fabric and some were making negative passes at me, others were like I was looking nice, maybe they should also start wearing it. I said thank you and yes they should all start wearing it. And they said they will think about it. By the time my husband was leaving office in 2000, the whole of Africa was wearing local fabrics, I mean the first ladies,” she shared. 

Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings is one of the people who have sparked up the love for our local fabrics in recent fashion trends. She steps up to every occasion with a fashion that does not go unnoticed and leaves a mark in relation to our culture.

Her beautiful Kente outfits and fabrics with her usual headgear have no doubt become a symbol to many in Africa and beyond and it's for these reasons and many more that she was celebrated at the Fashion Connect Africa event.

Fashion Connect Africa was aimed at bridging the gap between the global fashion industry and the indigenous African fashion industry which brought a never-seen-before style and innovation to the African fashion runway.