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Andriata crowned Miss Afri-Canada 2009
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| 05/11/2009 00:00:00 |
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Queen ... Andriata Chironda
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GORGEOUS Andriata Chironda was crowned Miss Afri-Canada on Saturday – the first Zimbabwean to win the honour in the competition’s 10-year history.
Harare-born Andriata also bagged the Best Evening Gown and Miss Congeniality awards, the latter a coveted title in beauty pageantry awarded by her peers to “the most friendly, helpful, genuine and outgoing” contestant.
She said: “I’m ecstatic to have brought the crown home and to have been an exemplary emissary for my motherland Zimbabwe."
The 27-year-old had the audience in a theatre at Toronto’s York University spell-bound as she shared the "voice of her ancestors" by playing a mbira piece called Karigamombe for her talent show performance.
She also sashayed in a beautiful and colourful traditional Ndebele outfit.
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Beauty ... Miss Afri-Canada 2009 Andriata Chironda
The history graduate pledged to use her reign “to work hard to bring the plight of displaced people to a wider audience.” She is the co-founder of Humane Migration and hopes to use this organisation as a vehicle for her new “social justice campaign”.
Andriata's second princess was Luwam Thomas from Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Tiffany Bangala was the first runner-up.
A recipient of a Carmen Brock Fellowship, the beauty queen intends to pursue Doctoral studies next year.
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