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09.09.2017 Opinion

Is It Party Politics Or Beauty Pageants? U/W Youth Demand Fair Representation

By Ushau Yeltima
Is It Party Politics Or Beauty Pageants? UW Youth Demand Fair Representation
09.09.2017 LISTEN

I wonder whether these days pageantry has become so politically hot just like political party national congresses.

It started with Ghana's Most Beautiful pageantry where a girl who never showed up for auditions was chosen to represent Upper West in the on- going GMB, and the two girls who were picked at the Upper West auditions dropped without any sensible explaination.

It Wasserstein found out that this rep for the Upper West region was a very close associate of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and pics were released of her in all party paraphenalia at several party gatherings.

Now miss Ghana 2017, Ghana's foremost beauty pageant just yesterday picked their final 20 contestants covering two girls each from every region. One of the girls representing the Upper West Region is in the person of MARGARET DERY, who happens to be the niece of the current interior minister and heavily affiliated with the party.

The scary part of this whole issue is this beautiful can hardly even exchange greetings in her mother tongue(dagaare) yet alone construct one sentence in any local dialect even that of her own people, and such a person is being picked as miss upperwest to represent the people of Upper West.

What have our pageants turned into....gone are the No 9 days where people from the various regions were happy and elated because a true child of the land was representing them as a people.

Now a girl who doesn't even know the basic traditions of the Upper West is representing us as a people all because she had strong links within the ruling party and if chosen as the overall winner is to go represent Ghana at the Miss World. What is she going there to represent, when she can't even greet in her own language. There is nothing about her that is Ghanaian. It is so sad.

Please bring back fairness to pageantry because it meant and means a lot to the various regions who want to see their true daughters showing of tradition. See pictures of her dressed in party colours and pictures of her with big wigs of the party.

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