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Adesuwa Osayaren, a GCU inferior analysis above with a premed emphasis, afresh was crowned the aboriginal Miss Africa Arizona. (Photos by White Deer Studio and Photographer Gladys Marietti)
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Story by Lana Sweeten-ShultsGCU News Bureau
Pageants aren’t absolutely Adesuwa Osayaren’s bailiwick.
The Grand Canyon University analysis major, with a premed emphasis, said, “That’s my sister.”
Her sister, Itohan Osayaren, is Miss Black Nevada 2018.
“The abutting affair I’ve anytime done was the babe affairs aback in aerial school,” said Osayaren, who on Saturday was crowned the aboriginal Miss Africa Arizona. The Antelope Gym accident was presented by the GK Folks Foundation and hosted by the University’s African Apprentice Association.
Osayaren’s belvedere is “Cheerfully and Wonderfully Made: Women of Value.”
It was on a whim that Osayaren absitively to assurance up for the cultural pageant, which offers scholarships to winners. She absolved by an African Apprentice Association table, area alignment associates were handing out fliers about the event.
“I thought, ‘Why not?’ Normally, I’d be, ‘No!’”
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While added pageants focus on beauty, this one put the spotlight on cultural heritage. That fabricated a aberration to Osayaren, who is a first-generation American.
“Our ambition is to advice African acceptance actuality and African refugee acceptance in the United States accretion aggressive abilities to advice them beforehand in life, and we accommodate a belvedere to advertise African ability and advice them advance abilities in the workplace,” GK Folks Foundation Executive Director Gloria Mensah said, abacus that the celebration is “more culturally focused and educationally based.”
According to Mensah, competitors charge be females of African coast — first- through third-generation — and charge ambit in age from 18-30. They cannot be affiliated or separated, and they charge be in acceptable continuing with their corresponding schools and/or organizations.
The cultural scholarship affairs is offered in Utah, Idaho and, now, Arizona.
Samuel Buadoo, President of GCU’s African Apprentice Association, told “Good Morning Arizona” that the club capital to accompany Miss Africa Arizona to campus because “GCU is a academy that supports cultural diversity.”
Osayaren’s ancestors is from Nigeria, and so she represented that country in Miss Africa Arizona, which additionally featured contestants apery Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Rwanda.
The new Miss Africa Arizona is from Nevada – she absitively GCU was the university for her afterwards accessory a Discover GCU accident – and grew up in a domiciliary area “respect is a big affair as able-bodied as apprenticeship and, of course, God.”
She said assertive things in her Nigerian ability wouldn’t beggarly the aforementioned affair to others: “Little gestures, like I couldn’t duke article to my mom with my larboard hand – it’s a assurance of disrespect.”
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Osayaren, whose ancestor is a pharmacist and mom is in medical billing, had to appear up with added than aloof an black clothes for the competition; she additionally bare acceptable apparel from the country she was representing. Her Parade of Nations accouterments had to reflect the colors of her country’s flag.
A abbey affiliate helped her accomplish some of her accoutrements for the acceptable outfit. “My mom was cool aflame for that,” she said.
The Miss Africa Arizona pageant, in accession to acceptable celebration elements, incorporates cultural elements, such as the Parade of Nations. Celebration champ Adesuwa Osayaren, a GCU analysis above (center), represented Nigeria.
As for her amethyst black gown, applicable because she’s a GCU student, Osayaren said she wore her brawl dress.
What acceptable fabricated the ablaze and adventurous Osayaren angle out was a composition she recited while donning acceptable Nigerian clothing, including a active red shirt and blooming chicken skirt:
“If I could go aback to my adolescent years
A couple, two or three,
What would I acquaint my adolescent cocky of who she’s meant to be?
["646.99"]I’d say, Child of Africa,
Open your ears, do not be deceived,
What I’m about to acquaint you is accuracy that no one could booty from you or me.
I’d say, ‘Know your roots
‘And do not be disgraced.
‘You are added than a blush or a colorant or a race.
‘This beard they alarm nappy, and this bark they alarm brown,
‘You abrasion it like a queen, with your afro as your crown.”
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