Category: model

  • Meet Neza Rachel | Africa’s Next top Model – TAP MAGAZINE

    Meet Neza Rachel | Africa’s Next top Model – TAP MAGAZINE

    I was never the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood, but a lanky, tall, dark girl with curly hair. At the age of 16, I overheard my uncle say to my mom, “Watch out for this one, wait until she grows up ntawuzamukira”—meaning he thought I would be really beautiful.

  • Kundwa Doriane – Catching up with Miss Rwanda 2015

    Kundwa Doriane – Catching up with Miss Rwanda 2015

    In the next 5 years, I hope I can inspire more young Rwandans at home and abroad to start their own businesses or even follow their own dreams in the arts, academia, sports and other domains.

  • Meet Tanasha Donna Oketch | The Kenyan/Italian fashion model

    Meet Tanasha Donna Oketch | The Kenyan/Italian fashion model

    My name is Tanasha Donna Barbieri Oketch and I am 20 years old… half Kenyan and Italian. I grew up in Kenya and left for Europe when I was 11. While in Europe, I had opportunities to get engaged in the modeling and fashion industry and to participate in various events such as the Miss…

  • Meet Christelle Yambayisa – Rwandan/French model taking Europe by storm

    Meet Christelle Yambayisa – Rwandan/French model taking Europe by storm

    My name is Christelle Yambayisa, I was born in Rwanda but raised in Paris, France since I was a baby. I am a French citizen but I still have my African culture and roots with me because I spend a lot of time with my grandparents who still have their roots despite living in France…

  • Danielle Kadjo

    Danielle Kadjo

    I love to travel, to meet new people and also to learn about different cultures. In my spare time, I enjoy modeling and learning more about the latest fashion trends, drawing fashion sketches and sewing clothing.

  • Nyabuoy Gatbel

    Nyabuoy Gatbel

    Nyabuoy Gatbel is a South Sudanese Canadian model, poet, author, human rights activist and media entrepreneur. She focuses her work on short stories on South Sudan, refugees experiences, women rights and issues within the African community and the inns and outs of fashion and modelling as well as spoken word. She regularly makes radio and…

  • Meet Jessi M’Bengue- African Supermodel and artist

    Meet Jessi M’Bengue- African Supermodel and artist

    Born in south of France, from an Ivorian-Senegalese father and an Algerian mother, Jessi M’bengue is a successful super model who has risen through the ranks and into the sacred circle of in-demand international super models. She is the African beauty in the 2013 mega hit song: Blurred lines with Robin Thicke, T.I and Pharrell…

  • Meet Abayi Longin – Rwandan/Kenyan Model

    Meet Abayi Longin – Rwandan/Kenyan Model

    More often than not, every successful story has a humble beginning and background. Abayi Longin Ogutu was born on the 1st of October 1987 in Rwanda to a middle class family. Rev.Dr.Francois and Mariana a retired accountant by profession. The second born of four, this bundle of joy was the first male of the Francois…

  • Meet Bethy Alemseged – Ethiopian Model and Banker

    Meet Bethy Alemseged – Ethiopian Model and Banker

    I started getting into modeling in 2009 then started acting professionally a year after. I was a second runner up at miss Teen Africa pageant in 2008…A year later, I was invited to be in a fashion show, gave it a go and everything else started happening after that. My advantage is that I’m not…