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]
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]
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 2014inThailand,[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;[7] however, she withdrew and the partnership between Miss Prestige Cameroun and Miss Grand International was terminated that year.[8]
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 stageinIndonesia,[1] but also withdrew.[9]
Cameroon was expected to return to the competition in the 2024 contest in Myanmar after the license was granted to Ndolo Enanga, the organizer of the Miss Face of Cameroon pageant.[10]
^ abcdColbie Medjom (December 1, 2015). "Miss Prestige Cameroun: grande finale nationale le 6 décembre 2015" (in French). Le bled parle [fr]. Archived from the original on July 26, 2023. Retrieved July 27, 2023. ...Celle-ci aura ainsi l'opportunité de participer à l'élection Miss Grand International où le Cameroun avait créé la surprise l'année dernière en s'illustrant à la 8e position sur les 52 participantes...
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