Above: Winner of the title of Miss Ethiopia 2009 Chuna Okaka
(C) poses with the first runner-up Meron Getachew (L) and the
second runner-up Samrawit (R) during the Miss Ethiopia 2009
Beauty Pageant in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, Jan. 18, 2009.
(Xinhua Photo)
A 22-year-old university student from Gambella won the title of Miss Ethiopia beauty competition held here on Saturday.
The winner, Chuna Okok, a sophomore at the faculty of business and economics, Addis Ababa University, outranks all of her 20 competitors.
She won Miss Ethiopia 2009 contest and received an award of diamond ring worth 60,000 Birr, according to competition organizer Ethiopian Village Adventure Playground.
The 1963 Miss Ethiopia winner Ejigayehu Beyene has put the crown for this year’s Miss Ethiopia winner, Chuna Okok.
Winner of the title of Miss Ethiopia 2009 Chuna
Okaka (R) wears the cordon during the Miss Ethiopia
2009 Beauty Pageant in Addis Ababa, capital of
Ethiopia, Jan. 18, 2009.(Xinhua Photo)
After being named Miss Ethiopia of 2009, Chuna said that she was excited to win the title as it would leave a message that Ethiopia is a home for beautiful people in its all regions.
Girls attend the finals of the Miss Ethiopia 2009 Beauty Pageant in Addis
Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, Jan. 18, 2009. Chuna Okaka won the title of Miss
Ethiopia 2009. (Xinhua Photo)
Chuna is to take part in Miss World Cultural Heritage of 2009 due to be held in Namibia this year, according to the organizer.
She would have great contribution in promoting her homeland Ethiopia, the organizer said.
u go girl
I am so happy to see a young girl from Gameblla won the miss Ethiopia tittle. This shows and gives young girls can do anything and beauty comes in different color and shapes. Beauty does not only mean lighter skin and long hair. This means a lot for young girls who suffer from low self esteem.
It’s wonderful to see a Gambellan beauty and from Ganbela tribe; it is finally recognized in Ethiopia.The East African noted well said the quotations from the biblical perspective.
Congratulations Miss Ethiopia!
its wonderful.
ithink she about to won miss world! will see wat iz gonna happen anyways gud luck ethio konjo!!!!
She is absolutely a beautiful girl! Beauty comes in many shades, and we Ethiopians are a reflection of that. There is a lot of blogs about inner beauty, Chuna is beautiful inside and out! Who said you have to be a light skin girl with European features to be considered beautiful?!!
Congratulations to her and her family!
congratulations!
i new it would happen. now open your eyes and keep goin
I am 2 late miss chuna,congratulations!i am proud of u.i have never think of such 2 happen 2 u or 2 other else.natural beautiness .i have no word 2 say,u r like baro river in Gambella,bridgh,jejebe.real Queen!!!
Hermosa mujer!!! Preciosa y elegante, mujer maravillosa en el mundo! Felicidades!!!
Felicidades desde Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Diana Lucero, Argentina que vive en España.
Congratulation Chunna, you are a BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN QUEEN.
The time has come to make Ethiopia for Ethiopians. After hundreds of years non stop fight for freedom and equality Chuna Okaka who were rejected, named all kinds of names, and being harassed, by Amarech, Almaz, Alemitu, Mekonnen, Abebe, ……… finally she made it to the top of the mountain to announce to the world “YES WE CAN” like president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama. The word Ethiopia given to the land not to the people who live in the land. The Greeks didn’t give the word Ethiopia to the land; they gave the word Ethiopia to the people who live in the land. As we know the land of Africa is not dark or black; it’s green gorgeous land. You can’t lie the blackness of ETHIOPIAN to the world. There is nothing wrong with being black. If Ethiopians are not black, then what are they? Just reference the Bible, Num.12 [13] And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman who he had married. Genesis 10:6 says, Cush was the first-born son of ham and the grand son of Noah. He was father of nimrod who became a great hunter, builder, and ruler. Zipporah (the wife of Moses), the queen of Sheba, Candace (queen of Ethiopia), and the Ethiopian eunuch (one of the first African converts to Christianity) are some of the descendants of this black progenitor. Please let us embrace non northern ethnic groups and live together to build the country instead of declaring our own tribe as having the only beautiful women or face in Ethiopia and falsely imagining of your tribe as superior than others. Also don’t go around telling our old history. The old history belongs in the museums and it doesn’t have value in today’s world. It didn’t save us from hunger or from being resettled in South and West of Ethiopia (the state of Chuna).
Ethiopia is changing for the better under the face of her enemies and that’s all we care about. Love mama Ethiopia. Congra Miss Ethiopia…………Yes you made it, now you opened a door for so many other tribes of Ethiopia to come forward. You made us proud.
I,m not Ethiopian I,m South Sudanese who spent most of his childhood in Ethiopia. So I love having hand in Ethiopians activities.
Congrats Chunna Okok Ojullo, though am late to congratulate you from the day one. You did incredible thing to your motherland Ethiopia, your family yourself and friends too. I know you could be doing amazing thing from the day I met you in Gambella in 2007. Keep the spirit burning and take what you did to the next level.
what a hell r u talking a bout? a lot of u saying dark skin is that a lack of English or stupidness? what a bout ur color r u white,red,blue,brown,black,pink n asiantic people
plz give up such a stupid attitude toward our color(black)
am bling bling
in G_city
congra chuna n dont misbehave like those people
10Q
Chuna’s beauty start from her confidece to run to the beauty compettion. please, let’s not corrupt our mind to deny her courrage,firmness to stand still to the final moment. Believe it or not she can convince the judges and become miss Eth. 2009. Congra, Chuna.