Nairobi - In many parts of Africa albinos are stigmatised or hunted
for their body parts, but for one night in Kenya those with the
condition took to the catwalk to show off their unique beauty.
Billed
by organisers as the first pageant of its kind, young albino men and
women on Friday competed for the title of Miss and Mr Albinism Kenya.
"People
with albinism are not seen as beautiful and handsome so it is very rare
to find those two words in the same sentence," said Isaac Mwaura,
Kenya's first albino lawmaker and organiser of the pageant.
"We
want to show our talent, we want to confront stigma and discrimination,
we want to change our narrative to show that actually, yes it is
possible to have people with albinism who are beautiful, who are
confident," he told AFP.
