Participants of the East African Model and Talent Convention in Nairobi. With a strong culture of modesty, modelling is considered indecent by many Africans. It is time that people accept and respect modelling like any other career. Ms Achieng was among 136 aspiring male and female models who took part in the first East Africa Model and Talent Convention, which was organised by a Nairobi-based marketing and promotional company, Creative Concepts. William J. Arban, a director of the US-based American Model and Talent Convention, was a guest speaker at the convention.
African beauty is world renowned, and there is such a diversity in Africa.
William J. Arban of the American Model and Talent Convention gives a lecture to the participants in the first East African Model and Talent Convention in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept 30, 2000. There is a great potential here. He brought along a former student, Horace Bass, a black American actor and model, to talk about the business to the African hopefuls. The American Model and Talent Convention, which inspired Mr Mbogua to create the East Africa gathering, was established in 1982 and serves as a forum for new models to display their talents, Mr Arban said. I tried to leave behind a template to help these people improve their convention.