Miss Grand Cameroon

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Miss Grand Cameroon
Formation2013
TypeBeauty pageant
Headquarters Yaoundé
Location
  • Cameroon
Official language
French
National director
Ndolo Enanga
Parent organization
Cameroon Pageant Academy (2024 – Present)
Affiliations Miss Grand International
Miss Grand Cameroon licensee timeline
Miss Grand Cameroon

Miss Grand Cameroon is a beauty pageant title given to Cameroonian representatives competing at the Miss Grand International pageant. [1] [2] The first titleholder was Marie Cecile Olga, [3] who was appointed to the position in 2013 by the director of Megane Fashion International and Olga's agent, Armstrong Loga. [3] The license was then transferred to a newly established national contest headed by Marina Tchassem Fankam named Miss Prestige Cameroun and to Angèle Kossinda in 2014 and 2022, respectively. [1] [2]

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Since 2013, Cameroon has participated in Miss Grand International only once, in 2014; other assigned titleholders did not enter the international pageants for unrevealed reasons. [4]

History

Initially, Cameroon was expected to make a debut at Miss Grand International in 2013 by an appointed representative, Marie Cecile Olga, but she withdrew for undisclosed reasons.[ citation needed ] The license was then taken over by Marina Tchassem Fankam the following year, and she subsequently established a new national pageant, Miss Prestige Cameroun, to select the winner to compete at the Miss Grand International 2014 pageant in Thailand. [2]

The inaugural of Miss Prestige Cameroun was held in the country's capital city, Yaoundé, and featured 20 national finalists, of whom a second-year economics student from the University of Yaoundé II, Leticia Ndzana, was elected the winner. [5] She then competed at Miss Grand International 2014 in Thailand, [2] making her the first Cameroonian candidate to compete at such an international pageant, but she was unplaced. [6]

Since the national was conducted too late in 2015, the winner of the contest, Olivia Ngalle, was set to represent the country at Miss Grand International 2016 instead;[ citation needed ] however, she withdrew and the partnership between Miss Prestige Cameroun and Miss Grand International was terminated that year. [7]

After five consecutive years of no representatives, former Miss Universe Cameroon, Angèle Kossinda, was assigned Miss Grand Cameroon in 2022 and was expected to join the international stage in Indonesia, [1] but also withdrew. [8]

Cameroon returned to the competition in the 2024 contest in Thailand after the license was granted to Ndolo Enanga, the organizer of the Miss Face of Cameroon pageant. [9]

International competition

The following is a list of Cameroonian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

YearMiss Grand CameroonTitlePlacementSpecial AwardsNational Director
2024 Sharlynn Acha [10] Miss Face of Cameroon 2024Unplaced [11] Ndolo Enanga [9]
Did not compete 2023
2022 Angèle Kossinda [1] Miss Universe Cameroon 2020 [1] Did not competeAngèle Kossinda
Did not compete between 2017-2021
2016 Olivia Ngallé[ citation needed ]Miss Prestige Cameroun 2015 [12] Did not competeMarina Tchassem Fankam [13]
Did not compete 2015
2014 Laeticia Ndzana [4] Miss Prestige Cameroun 2014 [5] Unplaced [6] Marina Tchassem Fankam [13]
2013 Marie Cecile Olga [3] Miss Tourism Cameroon 2010 [3] Did not competeArmstrong Loga [3]

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