Original Story Published by: Ruhumuza for Jambo News
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For nearly a month, the Rwandan blogosphere has been boiling around a dynamic young woman named Josiane Mwiseneza running for Miss Rwanda 2019.
With a punk haircut, modest clothing style, toe injury, lack of make-up, and average height does, Josiane Mwiseneza seemed not fit the stereotypes usually conveyed by candidates for Miss Rwanda when she applied for the contest. However, almost a month after having applied, she has captured a strong following and support of her fellow Rwandans, obtaining a popular admiration with an impressive proportion, in a country that is usually accustomed to elections held in relative anonymity and slightly revealed by some bad buzz around the participants low performances in terms of foreign language proficiency.
The support for Josiane Mwiseneza’s candidacy is such that it is described as “historic” by several local medias. Songs have already been composed to her glory, poems are circulating, a fortune teller has predicted her victory, and a blessing for the young woman has been shared thousands of times. Even the political world has been pulled into the phenomenon to the point that Alvera Mukabaramba, the Rwandan Secretary of State for Social Affairs, has been campaigning support on Twitter. Recently, a petition was circulated to amend the rules of the Miss Rwanda contest with the goal to “remove all obstacles that could prevent Josiane from being crowned Miss Rwanda 2019“. Thus far, the petition has received more than 1000 signatures. For some commentators “if we have been able to change the constitution, we can modify the rules of this competition to make sure that, the candidate chosen by the Rwandans, is the one elected.
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