Sahar Arrayeh is a fashion Designer from Sudan. Once an orthopedic surgeon in London, she felt an urge to stay in Sudan when she visited the country late 2017 and decided to pursue her life long passion of being a fashion designer. Fast forward to 2019 and here we are,front row seats to the Nafisa Project: A fashion Story.
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 Africa Belgium but I wanted to come home and participate in miss world Kenya instead. To represent home from home, not from a foreign country. Full feature in TAP MAG issue
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 with us. I’ve always been comfortable in my skin so I never let anyone look down on me because I am a coloured woman.
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 television appearances and she’s a contributor to the African Perspective Magazine among other medias.
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 Williams.