Chidimma Adetshina, who quit the Miss South Africa beauty pageant last week after being embroiled in a row over her nationality, has accepted an invitation to compete for the title of Miss Universe Nigeria instead.
Born to a Nigerian father and a South African mother with Mozambican roots, Adetshina, 23, withdrew from the South African contest as questions swirled over her eligibility to enter and she became the target of xenophobic online attacks. Posting on Instagram on August 8, she said she made the “difficult decision” to quit the contest to protect the “safety and wellbeing of my family and I.
In a statement posted on its website on August 7, South Africa’s Home Affairs department, which oversees immigration, said it investigated Adetshina’s citizenship at the request of the pageant’s organizers and found that “fraud and identity theft may have been committed” by her mother to obtain South African citizenship.
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