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Agbani Darego Biography
1982—
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Nigeria's Agbani Darego was crowned Miss World in 2001, making her the first black woman from an African country ever to win the pageant.
Darego spent much of her Miss World year making public appearances around the globe and serving as an unofficial ambassador for her country, and even her continent.
Jagbani darego biography definition
"People think that Africa is a backward, poverty-stricken place, that everyone who lives there is suffering," she told Lesley Garner of the Evening Standard, a London newspaper. "There are parts that are like that, but in Nigeria a lot of people are well-to-do."
Born in 1982, Darego hails from a town called Abonnema in the Rivers State area of southern Nigeria.
Her full name is Ibiagbanidokibubo Asenite Darego, and she was the sixth of eight children in her family. Her father was a customs official, while her mother, Inaewo, had a rice-trading business which necessitated frequent travel; on her trips Ina