I manage a page about short haired women on Facebook and I’m always looking for inspiration. Yesterday I saw the new Miss Universe is a black woman from South Africa, called Zozibini Tunzi. A very beautiful woman. But I noticed something sad in her discourse.
She said she lives in a world where women like herself, with her skin colour and the texture of her hair aren’t considered beautiful. Here’s a video with this speech.
Am I living in Mars? Because in my world there are lots of black beautiful women like Lupita Nyong’o, Rihanna, Beyoncé and fabulous Naomi Campbell to mention a few.
When I was a child I didn’t see myself represented by beautiful celebrities. And I know this was because I didn’t see my own beauty. Could Miss Tunzi feel the same and this is the reason she said that? Because the only other explanation I see for that would be she lives in a place without internet, cinema, radio and television!!! A place focused in itself, not sharing news from the rest of the world. But I believe South Africa is not that primitive place.
She’s not even the first black woman to be a Miss Universe.
That’s why I think this speech was so sad. Because it talks a lot of her self image.
What about yours?
Nycka, the nomad
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