Finalist For Miss West Africa Ghana 2012; The Black Star Queen

Stella helps raise breast cancer awareness for Sierra Leone charity

The amazing Stella Bangura, Miss West Africa Sierra Leone has done alot of great charity work during her reign, and in June she attended the Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation fundraising gala in Freetown, where she spoke passionately about the cause and the work Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation are doing.

The Thinking Pink Breast Cancer Foundation organised the fundraising and cultural gala with the theme "Building a System on Cancer" as Sierra Leone has no breast cancer or cancer facilities or units and there is a high rate of ignorance about the deadly disease.

You can contact and find more information on the foundation here.

The First Miss West Africa Queen for 2012 is.........

Nella Santos. As shown below, Nella was in a very heated Miss West Africa Sao Tome et Principe 2012 voting competition against Ivanilda. It was a competition where every night one will exceed past the other and the next night could be different. The participation of votes was so much and so rapid, with each of the girls gaining over 400 votes in a couple of days, the organisers decided to change to facebook picture likes where the participation of voters could actually be seen. At the end, Nella came out victorious with a 232 vote lead.

Thanks all those that engaged in the votes, and also Ivanilda the strong competitor who will now also represent Sao Tome in other competitions. Nella is now officially featured on the www.misswestafrica.com . She will be one out of 24 queens, scheduled to compete in the up and coming Miss West Africa International 2012. Already Miss West Africa organisers are sizing up their competition and now ensuring they get a better candidate.

Background on Nella, she is a 26 year old aspiring model, she is the organiser for Miss CPLP, also will be a judge at Miss Sao Tome et Principe UK 2012. We hope like all the other queens, the Miss West Africa crown and organisation can help Nella raise tourism and acknowledgement of West African charities where ever she goes. Very soon we will present to you her Miss West Africa Sao Tome et Principe 2012 pictures.

New pictures of Chiamaka Abanofor, Miss West Africa USA 2011

Chiamaka proudly showing her west African love in the USA. We hope you love these.

Battle For The 1st Miss West Africa 2012 Regional Crown

Get ready, for what you see below are not just any girls. One of these very beautiful two ladies below will be the first ever Miss West Africa Queen to be crowned this year in 2012. Both Nella and Ivanlida put themselves forward for the Miss West Africa Sao Tome et Principe crown, amongst 32 other contestants. Unfortunately some of the Sao Tome ladies who applied did not fitting the criteria, and the others were based in either UK or Portugual, and they were then instructed to participate in either Miss West Africa UK (www.misswestafrica.co.uk) or Miss West Africa Portugal (www.misswestafricaportugal.com), leaving Nella and Ivanilda to be our two main contestants for Sao Tome et Principe 2012. This year,

STP queen will be determined by public votes i which Sao Tome et Principe fans from all over the world will engage in. STP is one out of the 4 of 18 West African countries where a Miss West Africa event will not be held, leaving 14 countries in West Africa, plus 3 abroad, 17 in total to experience the Miss West Africa magical events. The winner will compete among 24 other Miss West Africa queens. And most importantly as said before, will be the first to wear the MWA crown in 2012.

Voting begins on www.facebook.com/MissWestAfricaInternational on monday the 9th, 2pm (GMT) and ends on Saturday the 15th, 8pm (GMT). You can see the outgoing queen, Marlene Fortes, on this (JULY) months calendar desktop screen saver. She served Sao Tome et Principe proud and has definitey established a Miss West Africa legacy in the small but beautiful country of Sao Tome et Principe.

On behalf of the Miss West Africa team, we wish all the girls good luck.

Vanny Reis attends Equatorial Guinea Presidential Party

Vanny was invited by the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea to celebrate his birthday at his event on Monday 25th June. Alongside our queen was the national queen, Miss Equatorial Guinea, plus many local and international celebrities from Spain, Portugal, USA and other parts of West Africa who also attended.

During her stay Vanny was also privileged to do a presentation on her charity 'We Do Care' at the State house.



She is currently in Portugal for the Cape Verde Independence day celebrations, and you can catch her speak more about her amazing trip live on dolshradio.com on Sunday 1st July 2012 2pm EST.

Also see more pictures here: https://picasaweb.google.com/misswestafricapageant/VannyJourneysToEquitorialGuinea?authuser=0&feat=directlink