Welcome to Miss Global 2024/5 holding in Cambodia and kudos to the Miss Global Afro queens making us proud. By the way, the international event began yesterday the 24th of February 2025. And it will end with the coronation of the next queen, on the 9th of March 2025. Furthermore, there are fifty-eight contestants from around the globe. And we have ten representatives in all.

Without wasting more time therefore, allow us to introduce you to the African countries at the event. As usual, our representatives include countries from Africa and the diaspora.

Permit us to start the listing of the Miss Global Afro queens with the regular representatives who are never tired of being there for us- South Africa, Jamaica and Nigeria. Followed by Puerto-Rico and Guadalupe. Next we have Tunisia and Morocco who are getting into the feel of attending all available pageants. After them we have DR Congo, also featuring in another pageant after being absent or irregular for such a long time And finally Liberia, Ghana and Kenya.

Now, that is a total of ten women of African descent out of fifty-eight ladies. We hope that at least two of the Miss Global Afro queens 2024/5, would at least be placed. Unlike last contest 2023/4 when no African queen was placed. Neither diasporan nor home-based. That was a truly sad outing for the whole continent.

Much as we have listed our regular and ever present representatives, we miss those who have become regulars. Namely Zimbabwe and Botswana. We are used to Angola going all out for chosen pageants, just like we are used to South Africa always up to the task.

At this point, we give South Africa kudos for rising to the occasion time and time again. And no matter what part of the world the pageant is holding. Going from baby, teen, unmarried or married pageants, South Africa is up to the task. We who know how costly pageantry is, doff our hats to South Africa.

However, note that South Africa is not just available at the contest. She attends to win because they prepare very hard for them. Those people take pageants as seriously as the South Americas and Europeans take them. Sponsorships and endorsements pour in from every part of their country and they have stiff and fair competitions.

On no particular order, Mariell Marlene Garcia is here to win and put all women of colour on the Miss Global map.