Events

Miss Africa International 2025 Celebrates African Women

Published

10 months ago

November 21, 2025

Miss Africa International 2025 in Abuja celebrates African women, heritage, and creativity while promoting education, entrepreneurship, and social change

Abuja is set to welcome stakeholders in Africa’s beauty, fashion, and creative economy as the 2025 edition of Miss Africa International takes place on December 6 at the Center Point Event Centre.

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The pageant positions itself as both a cultural showcase and a key contributor to Nigeria’s growing pageant and creative industry value chain.

Founder and organiser, Anita Igoni, explained that the 2025 edition aims to strengthen Africa’s presence in the global creative economy by highlighting heritage-driven narratives while expanding opportunities for young women across the continent.

“Miss Africa International 2025 is not just a pageant; it is a celebration of Africa’s diversity, elegance, intelligence, and strength,” Igoni said.

“Through this platform, we honour African women and showcase to the world that our continent’s beauty is as deep as its heritage.”

Igoni also noted that the event continues to attract contestants and audiences from across Africa and has evolved into a platform that supports education, entrepreneurship, and advocacy initiatives.

“Our goal is to help young women find their voice and use it to advocate for education, entrepreneurship, and social change,” she added.

Industry analysts have highlighted that Abuja’s hosting of the event reinforces the city’s growing profile in the regional entertainment and hospitality markets.

With pageants increasingly serving as vehicles for brand visibility, corporate sponsorships, and tourism revenue, Miss Africa International is expected to generate business activity across fashion design, media production, event management, hospitality, and local retail.

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The 2025 edition promises to be a powerful platform that blends glamour with purpose, offering young African women the chance to showcase talent, heritage, and leadership on an international stage.

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WAKE UP! Art Exhibition Returns for a Second Act

Published

2 weeks ago

August 27, 2026

Mariam Balogun

The contemporary art and photography exhibition “Wake Up!” is back again for a second edition.

Curated by Awele Onwordi, Wake Up! 2 exhibition pays homage to the Nigerian youth and burgeoning street culture which many of its contributing artists reference in their works.

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Titled “Young, Wild, Free”, the exhibition celebrates the creativity, resilience, freedom and cultural influence found in Nigerian youth.

Taking aim at societal issues and economic concerns, the exhibit reflects the youth and their refusal to compromise or bow despite all the challenges stacked against them while charting youth culture through art, music, fashion, skateboarding, photography and community.

The exhibition will be held, once again, at the Angel and Muse Gallery at 25 Sumbo Jibowu street off Ribadu Road off Awolowo Road in Ikoyi.

It will open on Saturday 5 September 2026 and will run until 11 September 2026
This second edition which focuses on celebrating, nurturing and exploring artistic practices rooted in youth and street culture will feature works from DENCITY and SUPERGLIDER HOUSE.

Exhibiting artists include Ajilore Kehinde – their work is deeply influenced by Nigerian street culture and works of other artists like Slawn, Peters Ejiro, etc, Chuka Onwordi – graphic designer who embodies themes of death, melancholy and beauty in his works, ZIDYEP – Abuja based creative whose works move between digital and physical spaces through art, graphic design and air brushing , Franklyn Okoye – graphic designer and artist whose works explore themes of identity and hyper-reality, Awele Onwordi – founder & curator of WAKE UP and multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans character art, creative logo design, album covers and more , Oluchi Kogolo – digital illustrator whose work explores street culture, personality and storytelling through a raw and playful visual style and Kozetuo Apeji – multidisciplinary artists who work explores experimental approaches to problem solving through both digital and traditional art forms.

Commenting on the exhibition in her curatorial statement, Awele noted that “despite economic instability, limited opportunities and socio-political challenges, Nigerian youth continue to shape culture through music, fashion, art, skateboarding, raves, photography and community.”

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Continuing and harping on the raison d’etre of the exhibition she said, “Young, Wild and Free exists to celebrate Nigerian youth while also creating a platform that supports and amplifies them.”