Nigeria models aim to rock the fashion runways: 'Africa is the future'


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Founder of Beth Modeling Agency, Elizabeth Elohor (centre), pose with friends during a reception to mark the launch of "Future Face Africa" in Lagos. Photo: AFP

Champagne corks popped and sequins sparkled like a thousand tiny stars in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, where an international model casting was on the hunt for the face of the future.

Elizabeth Elohor is sure that it will be an African one. The former top model created the first modelling agency in Nigeria back in 2004, when there was no fashion week on the continent, very few local designers and little high-end fashion.

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