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Sophie Okonedo was born in London the daughter of Joan, a pilates teacher, and Henry Okonedo, who worked for the government. Her father is Nigerian and her mother, a Ashkenazi Jew. Her father left the family when Okonedo was five, and she was subsequently raised in poverty by her single [...]]]></description>
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In her early days Kanya attended South Kilburn High School in London, proceeding to study English and Drama at Goldsmiths College in South London. Her father died when Kanya was aged just 13, and to help financially she managed various jobs from working in a bakery to running her own promotional company supplying [...]]]></description>
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Entrepreneur/Model Julia Esinam Kwamya is a recent graduate from Pepperdine University with a BA in Economics. Since landing in New York, Julia has begun to leave her mark in the big city. Her modeling career began at the young age of 14 but she decided to continue her education instead of pursue her [...]]]></description>
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Newton was born in Zambia, the daughter of Nyasha, a Zimbabwean health-care worker/nurse, and Nick Newton, a white English laboratory technician and artist.
Newton made her film debut in Flirting, (1991). This Australian movie was also a launch pad for a young Nicole Kidman, with whom she has remained friends. She gained international recognition [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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The ‘Peul Princess&#8217; as she was nicknamed by her colleagues was one of the 1st African models to successfully make it in the fashion world. She started her modeling career in the 1980s after fleeing to France, after she married and gave birth at the age of 17.
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Arieta is 29 and has been working in fashion at various capacities for 10 years in the UK. - A window dresser for GAP which allowed her access to seeing how looks are pulled together as worldwide GAP is applauded or their fabulous and consistent windows, while working as a window dresser for GAP [...]]]></description>
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Funmi Iyanda is a multi award winning broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger. She produces and hosts Nigeria&#8217;s most popular and authoritative talk show NEW DAWN with funmi aired on the national network. With over a decade long media experience Funmi is a strong voice and advocate for women and children. An innovator in [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Suzanne &#8220;Africa&#8221; Engo is founder and Executive Director of the New York AIDS Film Festival and President of Girl Behind the Camera Productions.
29-year-old Suzanne Engo first began her philanthropic work at age five, when she shared her Christmas gifts with local handicap children in her native Cameroon, West Africa. At the age of [...]]]></description>
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Few women exude such grace and poise. Synonymous with fashion, style and glamour in Nigeria, she was acknowledged by Africa&#8217;s largest circulating magazine, Drum in 1963. In 1973 she was given the title, ‘Iya-Oge&#8217; of Lagos, by the late Oba Adeyinka Oyekan for raising the bar of fashion in Nigeria, and for giving [...]]]></description>
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Oluchi was the winner of M-Net Face of Africa preliminary screening at the M-Net office in Victoria Island, Lagos which she scaled through. The agency immediately groomed her to be one of Nigeria&#8217;s entrants for a model competition, the M-Net Face of Africa (now called the Nokia Face of Africa). With the support [...]]]></description>
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