New York, January 2011—On Friday, February 18th, 2011, philanthropist MacDella Cooper, Founder of the MacDella Cooper Foundation and the MCF Academy will host L’AFRICANA NIGHT at the finale of New York Spring fashion week. The event honored Mr. Barry Segal with a Lifetime Achievement Award (for his philanthropic commitment to sub saharan Africa) Ms. Bisila [...]

PLEASE JOIN FIFI SOUMAH (MISS AFRICA USA 2010-2011 ALONG WITH ADIAT DISU, ALSION ROACH, CHENISA SHANNON, CHEREAH JACKSON, CHRISTINE KONTENSKI, ERIN BROWNE, FARRAH FOGARTY, INGVAR LJUNGGVIST, MALINDA KNOWLES, MARTIN SEGAL, MATTHEW K. SIMON, MELISSA BLASSO, PAMELA BELL, PAMELA BROGDEN, PETER JALLAH, SIMON TIEMTORE, STEPHANIE MATTERA, TAYLOR SELE, TILO STOLTZ, TONIEMAE KING ANDREWS, VERNA BROGDEN   [...]

The Miss Africa USA 2010 VIP Banquet and Awards  ceremony was hosted at the University of Maryland Marriott Conference Center. The color theme for the night for all 32 delegates was gold. The girls were elegantly dressed in different shades of gold as pictured above. 32 finalists representing different African countries.  The purpose of the [...]

MISS AFRICA USA 2010 PAGEANT AND CORONATION CEREMONY

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Miss Cameroon Danielle Mingana Fochive gave it a good shot at the pageant, walking off as the most talented in the pageant. She won a complete photoshoot with Harold Greaves Photography.  Her talent was actually a traditional dance from the Ndian division of  Cameroon. Danielle is pictured above post-pageant.

Pageant night 2008, the beautiful Miss Africa USA, Nyasha Zimucha looks stunning in this beautiful emsemble (South African Flag Dress).  Nyasha spoke passionately of her platform: A Global Citizen Campaign to raise awareness about Xenophobia, attacks on foreigners in her homeland, South Africa. Nyasha. Nyasha pictured above performing her talent during the pageant competition. She [...]

She is certainly beautiful, poised, eloquent and full of confidence. Miss Kenya placed as the 2nd runner up at the Miss Africa USA Pageant 2008. She left a mark on the audience in the way she carried herself on stage and her eloquence. Miss Victoria Njau thrilled the audience with her adaptation of the Poem [...]

In all simplicity and modesty, Estella Couture wraps her mind in her creations  as one of Africa’s most sort after Designers not only in the USA but also around the world.  Estella Couture met Lady Kate Njeuma, the Executive Producer of Miss Africa USA back in 2007 at the Miss Africa Preliminaries in Silver Spring [...]

Miss Ghana USA 2008, Krystle Simpson pictured above in true elegance, wearing the Kente design. The Kente cloth is well known in the world as one of the signature clothes  from Africa, very colorful and hand crafted the Kente certainly brings out the African in anyone who wears it. Thank you Ghana for creating such [...]