Nollywood actress, Seyi Hunter, has joined the ranks of entertainment people who are moving into the pageantry business as she is set to launch the maiden edition of Miss Bikini Pageant International tomorrow, the 10th of October.
According to the actree she said that, "The beauty of this pageant is that we are showcasing the African culture. We want to change the perception of people about bikinis. Bikinis can be worn tastefully without promoting obscenity. We want to explore how bikinis can be worn to suit our culture. Models will be wearing them the African way. We hope to change the bikini culture to suit our ‘Africaness’.”
The actress who has starred in movies like Broken Fixtures, Pain, Many Days-One day, My Club, MM Girls, Insanity,Rukayat, Alenibare, amongst others, emphasized that the pageant is all about doing the foreign bikini culture the African way using African prints. “It’s about injecting the African culture into an European or global culture.
The bikini culture is European-born and we are injecting the African culture into it. We are trying to change this foreign culture that we have borrowed, to suit us. We are buying a foreign culture and doing it our way. We want to promote decency. The bikini culture is the beach culture all over the world, now we are injecting the African culture into it. We are taking away the amoral sides of it and making it look African. We want to change our orientation about bikinis.”
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