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Mpule Kwelagobe
Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe is a Motswana investor, businesswoman, model, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1999. She was the first black African woman to win one of the Big Four international beauty pageants, the first woman from Botswana to win, and the first from a nation making their debut in nearly four decades, as well as the third African woman to win a Miss Universe title. Kwelag…
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Born 14 November 1979 · Q783300
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2015· 1 entry
Kwelagobe signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of
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2011· 1 entry
Kwelagobe founded the MPULE Institute for Endogenous Development, a New York City-based advocacy
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2003· 1 entry
Was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) by the World Economic Forum, and in 2006, she was selected by the same organisation as a Young Global Leader (YGL)
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2002· 1 entry
Two years after finishing her reign as Miss Universe
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2001· 1 entry
Kwelagobe received the Jonathan Mann Health Human Rights Award by the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)
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2000· 1 entry
Kwelagobe was made a goodwill ambassador by the United Nations, focusing on youth and HIV/AIDS
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Miss Universe Botswana (1999).
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Miss World Botswana (1997).
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Entered Miss Botswana 1997 while still a high school student
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1979· 1 entry
Born 1979-11-14.
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