Miss African Spirit 2011: Contestant Evania Justino from Angola

Miss African Spirit Contestants:

From Angola...

Evania Justino

Profession/ Education: Politics and Journalism

UGPulse.com asked the contestants 3 questions...

With the state of the global economy today, what opportunities are out there for African nations and how do you think they should grab and take advantage of those opportunities?

With state of the global economy present opportunities for African nations will be sure to expand in the field of health and creation of new jobs and improving the lives of the poor. Poverty can be seen as a collective condition of poor people, groups and even nations. To avoid this stigma, these nations which are usually called developing countries, should grasp and take advantage of these opportunities, staying in their jobs and thank for have them...

"The global demand for natural resources and the search for new markets are driving trade between emerging economies. Africa needs to grab hold of these opportunities, backed by sound macro and micro economic policies that would support the complimentary existence of the continent's extractive sectors, but also other sectors that hold the potential for the participation of all African citizens in different economic activities such as agriculture, services and telecommunications."

If possible build more schools and provide education resources to provided good teaching or children and find ways to build more supermarket and make use of all the oil that African Nations have.

What is the African Spirit... How do you live it?... How do you share it?

African Spirit is about embracing the culture and values taught and also given to you.

African Spirit is all about pride and respect.

African Sprit is about unity termination and fighting for what you really believe.

You live it with hope that one day you will teach your kids and grandkids what you were taught about being African and expect them to teach others. Being an African and having an African spirit makes me be who I am today... Someone with dreams to succeeded in life and go back to my Nation and other Nations to help and offer to support.

Dear Africans... some of us have left and moved away but our Spirit will always remain. One day we will come back and contribute to all our brothers and sister what we have learned all these years we spent away. One day we AFRICANS will stop poverty just the way we stopped slavery.

We are fighters and I believe that we can do anything. All we need is each other. All African Nations to come together and make a change to the whole of Africa.

Are you beautiful? Can you share your beauty secret to your fellow African sisters?

I believe that everyone is beautiful in their own way, wether you are white, Latino, Mexican or any other race. When GOD created us he never thought about beauty on the outside. He thought about his creations to be happy the way he created us. I can honestly say that the media is sometimes the reason why women feel below and low... especially African women. A few weeks ago I read an article that left me in tears about how “African Black Women Are Less Attractive” This made me think how can people write that? Not because it’s about my race but because it’s not true and its offensive. I am 20 years old and I was hurt by what it was written on the article. Imagine how African girls... how they felt? This article made me realise that humans make a lot of mistakes and are very judgemental about others. I would teach my fellow African sisters that everyone is BEAUTIFUL... everyone is PERFECT in their own way and its ok to wear makeup once or twice to give you confidence but not to bring you beauty because that’s not what make up does. Makeup gives you confidence and not beauty... God already gave us that.

GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES...

Evania Justino.