Miss Tanzania

Miss Tanzania is Tanzania's National beauty pageant . The winner whereby goes to represent the country in the Miss World Contest. The final candidates competing in the pageant are all winners & Runner ups of regional beauty contests.

The reigning Miss Tanzania is Salha Israel, crowned on 10th September 2011^[1] who was crowned at the Mlimani City Conference Centre. She will represent the country at the Miss World 2011 in London

Background

Miss Tanzania started in the 1960s and the participants for the most part were from Dar es Salaam, the winners were however not sent to compete internationally. In 1968, the government banned beauty contests in the country after advice from the ruling political party's youth league citing it was not consistent with Tanzanian culture.

In 1994 when beauty contests were allowed, the country had its first Miss Tanzania who competed in the Miss World.

Tanzania ended its decade-long drought of shining in international beauty contests in Miss World 2005, when Nancy Sumari was among the top 6 finalists and also crowned Miss World Africa.

Winners

Year	Name	Placement at Miss World
1994	Aina Maeda	-
1995	Emily Adolf	-
1996	Shose Sinare	-
1997	Saida Kessy	-
1998	Basila Mwanakuzi	-
1999	Hoyce Temu	-
2000	Jacqueline Ntuyabaliwe	-
2001	Happiness Magese	-
2002	Angela Damas	-
2003	Sylvia Bahame	-
2004	Faraja Kotta	-
2005	Nancy Sumari	Top 6 Finalist & Miss World Africa
2006	Wema Sepetu	-
2007	Richa Adhia	-
2008	Nasreen Karim	-
2009	Miriam Gerald	-
2010	Genevieve Emmanuel	-
2011	Salha Israel	Top 30 finalist for Beauty with Purpose [2]

External links

• Miss Tanzania's Official website

References

1. ^ http://in2eastafrica.net/salha-israel-crowned-miss-tanzania-2011/
2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World_2011#Beauty_With_A_Purpose