With its evening gowns, celebrity judges and tears of joy, the beauty pageant in Kenya was like others elsewhere, except for one thing “ contestants who strutted, sashayed and swaggered down the catwalk had albinism “ a condition characterised by the lack of pigment in skin, hair and eyes.
In many parts of Africa, albinos are stigmatised or even killed by those seeking to use their body parts in superstitious rituals. Kenya is however hoping to change the perception of albinos in the country by hosting the continent's first albinism pageant. Scan the QR for more.
