Pageantry promotes ethic pride

Mr & Miss Culture Heritage Botswana has not left the boy child behind
Mr & Miss Culture Heritage Botswana has not left the boy child behind

A traditional and contemporary dancer, Pearl Ntshole has established a beauty contest dubbed Mr and Miss Culture Heritage Botswana aimed at promoting and preserving culture and traditions while instilling pride in one’s ethnicity.

The beauty contest was started in 2019.

 Ntshole decided to use the pageantry to promote culture more especially amongst the youth, as they are the future leaders of the country. Speaking to Arts & Culture in an interview, Ntshole said she realised that there were Batswana who still believed in minority and majority groups, thus making the so-called minority groups feel less confident and be ashamed of where they came from.

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