Celebrating Africa’s Rich Cultural Heritage – Photos from the Maiden Edition of the Heritage Awards & Miss Heritage Contest
Posted on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 9:28 PMBy Adeola Adeyemo
It was a rich and beautiful display of the African culture at the maiden edition of Heritage Awards and Miss Heritage Nigeria which took Abuja by storm on Sunday 11th December 2011.
The Thisday Dome in Abuja, venue for the event was decorated in rich cultural African art work to celebrate the African culture. Most of the guests were dressed in different African attires and the contestants displayed their different cultures with their dinner dresses which were designed in African Fabric. Their hairstyles also symbolized the African culture as they were done in weaves.
According to the organizers, Miss Heritage Nigeria is a unique beauty pageant which celebrates Nigeria’s rich cultural heritage and provides an avenue to reach out to the youths on the importance of imbibing the values of our cultural heritage.
Heritage Awards were given out to individuals who have promoted Nigeria’s cultural heritage in different ways. Individuals and corporate organizations across various industries were recipients of the awards. They include 2face Idibia, Oge Okoye, Chika Ike, Nduka Obaigbena, Dr. Olubunmi Wilson, Moses Siasia, Mr. Azuka Biose, Baba Umar Faruk – Permanent Secretary on Youth Development, Globacom, and AIT.
The event was organized by Caires Grooming Agency, an organization which was conceptualized by its founder, Chinor Emeka to promote the Nigerian Cultural Heritage.
If you missed all the fun and excitement at the event, never mind BN has got all the photos.
Enjoy!
Photos
Coronation
Main Event
Red Carpet
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1st, nt bad at all
Abuja can dress beta
all this people and their first syndrome,cant u just comment and leave,dont we all no u r first *rme* anyways i am loving miss nasarawa,she looks good
Abuja always carrying last tho! GOSH!
Miss Nassarawa, those shoes are soooo on point!
and Oge Okoye actually looks nice, she should stick to this look. so much better than those 30″ weaves she used to carry around. TUFIAKWA!
Seriously, can we just do without the airbrushing and photoshopping for once?
too many pictures for a seemingly uninteresting event!
i really dont know what to say oh.
Na wa oo, must there be a red carpet for every event in Naija now…?? plus after viewing all these pics, I still can’t tell who won the contest
what is Miss Rivers putting on as her traditional attire?this is so crazy..i hate it when beauty pageants wear nonsense as their cultural attire….Rivers state cultural attires are very beautiful bcos of the multi-enthic groups and what she is putting on is no way near one of rivers’ cultural attire…this is total nonsense…….there are d kalabaris, ibanis, ikwerres, ogonis.. etc and she choose to put on this?
how many beauty queens do we have in Nigeria? with the rate this is going, everybody will be wearing a crown soon.
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When you have a q leg, must you also wear skimpy clothes?
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who won de contest pls?
Lol..so many pics tho
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speechlesssssssssssssssssssss
The photographer needs to learn photo shopping etiquette!! Wharris this???
i think its was a lovely event, and being the first of its kind, Chinor deserves a Thumbs Up,….. shez my friend tho,……… haters keep hating..
U go gurl
I dont understand why we have all this ridiculous pagent, i.e miss gari, miss purewater, miss blackberry, miss underthebrige, miss lagosruns, miss aristo etc…..gosh its become a joke and what is the essence of all this pagents. Nigeria really has a long way to go……
Some of these comments reflect the old adage: “Damned if you do; damned if you don’t.” There is just no pleasing some people. The bottom line is, any opportunity to celebrate and showcase our culture is ALWAYS a good thing. For those of us living outside Nigeria, we welcome the chance to see images of back home. Well done BN for sharing.
i feel so proud to be nigerian whenever i see such events that represent nigerian culture in it’s diverse forms.
it’s also good to see girls who are obviously from the south dress as northern girls.
The lady with the short dress interviewing on the red carpet, whats happening with her legs?? Knowing so well her legs are crossed, she should have opted for a long dress or pants…the sight isn’t just cool
So proud of u teemee…i see u
chinor truly deserves a thumbs up. putting together an event of this magnitude in Abuja is certainly not easy. u go girl! haters go and hug a transformer.