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The 7th annual edition of the Miss International Queen pageant will start October 30 and run through November 4 in Pattaya, Thailand    It's a TransGriot tradition to keep up with the best known trans pageants such as Miss Tiffany, Miss Continental, Miss Amazing Philippine Beauties and Miss International Queen.

As the date for Miss International Queen gets closer I'm starting to find out in bits and pieces who the competitors are for the 2011 crown and interestingly enough there will be at least one contestant representing the African Diaspora. 

Stumbled across this video of Sahhara.  She was born in Nigeria and lives in the UK but explains in it why she decided to represent her birth nation at this year's pageant.

In the history of the Miss International Queen pageant although there have been African descended girls in it, there has never been a person from the African Diaspora that has won it.  Stasha Sanchez came close with her finish in the top three last year as the second runner up in this pageant..

As I will relentlessly keep pointing out, human life originated on the African continent, so it stands to reason that trans people also exist on the second largest continent on the planet. 

As a child of the African diaspora it is my business and one of the missions of this blog to keep up with trans developments in the various nations on the African continent

They have been just as busy organizing to fight for their human rights, and it's why I and others have major issues with that unjust anti-trans UN paper two white East Coast first world radical lesbians wrote.

Here's a video courtesy of the South African trans organization Gender DynamiX of a May 2010 meeting that was held in Windhoek, Namibia.    Activists from South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Uganda and Botswana met for training purposes, to strengthen their communications ties, build community and get tips on strengthening the organizations poised to fight for their human rights in their various nations.