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Miss saHHara | |
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 Miss saHHara modeling in London | |
| Born | 27 August |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Singer/songwriter, fashion model, beauty queen, Founder of Transvalid organisation, President of Miss Trans Global |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
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| Website | misssahhara |
Miss Sahhara (stylized as Miss saHHara)[a][2] is a British Nigerian beauty queen and human rights advocate.[3][4]
She is the first ever winnner of Super Sireyna Worldwide 2014 in Manila Philippines. she became the first black transgender woman to be crowned in an international transgender pageant.[5][6] With her 2011 participation in Miss International Queen, a beauty pageant in Pattaya for transgender women, Miss Sahhara became the first trans woman from Nigeria to come out in the international press.[7][8] She subsequently founded a global transgender awareness news curation organisation called TransValid, and an advocacy pageant for transgender women called Miss Trans Global .[9][10]
- ^ "DISCLAIMER | Miss saHHara putting the record straight". www.misssahhara.com. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ "Trans woman: 'I left Nigeria to save my life'". BBC News. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ "Meet Nigerian Model Who Was Once Male". pulse.ng. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Dachen, Isaac (9 July 2014). "Big Dreams: Miss Sahhara To Represent Nigeria At World Transgender Pageant". pulse.ng. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ News, G. M. A. (1 August 2014). "Sahhara's journey". GMA News Online. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Other winners, other competitions". Philstar.com. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
- ^ "Scars of prejudice underlie glamour of transgender pageant". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 November 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ "#7 – The Story of Nigeria's First Transgender Woman". Africa.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Mohan, Megha (16 March 2017). "Why transgender Africans turned against a famous feminist". BBC News. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ "Miss saHHara is a singer/songwriter, fashion model, beauty queen, and a human rights advocate". transvalid.org. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
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