There's every chance that you may not have heard of Aamito Stacie Lagum - but she's Africa's newest beauty queen, at least as far as reality TV shows are concerned.
Now the lanky, dark beauty aims to make a splash in the Big Apple.
The 21-year-old Ugandan was recently crowned Africa's Next Top Model (the local spin-off of Tyra Banks's America's Next Top Model), which was filmed in Cape Town. Part of the prize is a contract with DNA management in New York City. Lagum is four years older than her mentor and show host Oluchi Onweagba-Orlandi was when she forayed into the tough American modelling industry.
"I began this journey on a bus ride across my country into Kenya to audition," she told The Times.
She's quite sweet, in fact most of the 12 girls on the show were - in contrast to those on the often snarky US version.
"It has been so surreal. I am thankful and happy my effort did not go unnoticed. My dream is to see my picture in Times Square, to flip pages of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Harpers Bazaar and see my face there. I want to blaze a trail, to show that African girls also have something to share."
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