Nigerian Teen’s Title a First for Pageant

An 18-year-old Nigerian who aspires to careers in both modeling and computers was crowned Miss World, the first black African to hold the title in the pageant’s 51-year history.

Wearing a lime-green body-hugging gown, Agbani Darego waved to a cheering crowd as she walked to a zebra skin-lined throne in Sun City, a glitzy resort in South Africa.

Darego said that as a girl she saw herself as someone “who wants to be a computer scientist as well as a supermodel.”