Nigerian
model, Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi who was born on 1 August 1980 celebrates her
40th birthday today.
Onweagba grew
up in the suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, with her two brothers and sisters. She is
the daughter of a civil servant father and mother who was a nurse.
At seventeen,
Onweagba was encouraged by a family friend to join into the M-Net “Face of
Africa” introductory screening at the M-Net office in Victoria Island, Lagos.
The agency refined her to be one of Nigeria’s entrants for the 1998 competition
(now called the Nokia Face of Africa).
This even
though, growing up, she had kept a relative ignorance towards fashion and
modelling. With the help of her family and friends, she chose to compete in the
inaugural edition of the Face of Africa in 1998. This was the first-ever
continent-wide model competition, designed by the South African channel M-Net
in collaboration with Elite Model Management. She won the competition
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