Rebecca Asamoah was Miss Ghana 2nd Runner Up in 2015 and later became the ultimate winner of the maiden edition of Miss Africa 2016 but that Crown came with an order to possibly stay celibate for one year by specifically not having a boyfriend, she told Nana Aba Anamoah.
Wife of Sulley Muntari, Menaye Donkor has won the right for her MALZ Promotions outfit to organize Miss Universe Ghana this year.
The model cum entrepreneur expressed her excitement as the new country director for the Beauty Pageantry Show weeks ago.
Upon all these scandals that plague Gh beauty pageants every year, perhaps this decision would be best fitted to our country rather than Guinea.
Although, we actually have great reasons to stop the pageants including fraud and exploitation, rather than just ‘moral’ outrage.
In recent years, beauty pageants have increased drastically in numbers. If nothing at all, I can possibly (out of my head) name about 50 beauty pageantry shows in Ghana; starting from Miss Abokobi to all those having ‘Miss’ as their prefix.
Such beauty shows keep popping up every single day, and I know it will continue as long as we live. However, I have tried to analyse the importance of such beauty pageants but have not been positively convinced so much.
Beauty pageants basically refer to contests that primarily lay emphasis on physical beauty of the participating contestants, although intelligence and talent are sometimes incorporated.
In every industry or institution, the various audiences are blind to what goes into the running of the industry or institution. That’s how come some people will perceive some companies as very reputable that pay their workers good amount of money. They will do whatever they can within their powers to get employed in such companies. Such people become shocked when they are employed and find out that what they have been thinking was not so.
Such is the case with beauty pageants. Many young ladies are more than happy to be part of the train when auditions are opened. Some go to the extent of borrowing money from friends to buy audition forms.
However, the dreams of most of these ladies are smashed when they are faced with the unexpected. I am more than sure someone like Giuseppina Baafi (don’t even know which title to assign her – whether Miss Ghana 2013 or former Miss Ghana 2013) never expected what happened between Exclusive Events Ghana and herself.
Contrary to what some people think, beauty pageants have not always been around. Paris of Troy was perhaps the first man who had the pleasure of selecting the most beautiful woman, but his choice was limited to three, Helen, the daughter of Zeus and Leda and two other women.
Helen of Troy may be the first Miss World, the face that launched a thousand ships, thereafter; there seem not to be too many records on what angle the early beauty pageants took.
Recent unpleasant revelations about beauty pageants in Ghana have made me on several occasions question the relevance of these pageants in our societies.
Few days after the Miss Ghana 2012 was mutilated by some people as lacking in fairness and judgment, another pageant-Miss Sanitation 2012 which is being organized for the first time has come under attack by 8 of the finalists even before the final event takes off.
The eight finalists have accused the organizer of having taken undue advantage of them to make money for himself and have further accused him of not redeeming some of his pledges.
In the midst of all these controversies, I have decided to look at both sides of the coin in relation to beauty pageants.
