Agbani Darego celebrates her 35th birthday today

Agbani Darego, MFR (born Agbani Asenite Darego,22 December 1982) is a Nigerian model and beauty queen, best known as the first native African to win Miss World.

Miss Agbani Darego, who was a 18-year-old Nigerian computer science student and the winner of the 51st Miss World pageant held in Sun City, South Africa.

She was chosen from 93 contestants from all over the world. She had promoted herself as wanting to be a computer scientist as well as a super model, Runners up were Zerelda Lee (Miss Aruba) and Juilet Horne (Miss Scotland).

The event was hosted by U.S. TV talk show personality Jerry Springer, and was beamed to a projected global television audience of 1.2 billion people. The beauty gala was held in Sun City, at South Africa’s Kingdom of Pleasure, a luxury resort of casinos and wild animals. Darego won a total cash prize of $100,000, plus gifts valued at $150,000. She was quoted with this statement “black is beautiful”, moments before being crowned.

Happy birthday to her as she remain for ever young in the heart of her fans and also an encouragement to young grow beauty pageant.