Daddy Bosco speaking at the launch
Lark Empire, organisers of the annual Face of Ga-Dangme (FOGD) beauty pageant, last Saturday launched this year’s edition of the pageant at a high-profile ceremony held at the Africa University College of Communication (AUCC) in Accra last Saturday.
This year’s event, which is the sixth edition, is under theme: ‘promoting the beauty & culture of Ga-Dangmes’.
The launch ceremony, which was performed by the Head of Communications & Special Projects of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) and General Manager of Ahotor FM, Ahuma Bosco Ocansey (Daddy Bosco), brought together a number of showbiz personalities, individuals from the business community, winners of the previous editions, a section of the traditional leaders, among many others.
Some of the personalities who graced the occasion were CEO of Prestige Volta Consult Travel & Tour, Richard Sumah; Face of Ga-Dangme 2016, Naa Nuerkie Worseeko; Face of Ga-Dangme 2015, Mrs. Elizabeth Koryoo Ocquaye and others.
In a speech, the founder of Face of Ga-Dangme and CEO of Lark Empire, Larkuor Adjartey, disclosed that she and her team are fired up to make a bold statement in the beauty pageant industry with this year’s edition after going into hiatus for two years.
She also stated that the beauty pageant was born out of the drive to educate people about the identity and cultural values of the Ga-Dangme ethnic group.
Ms. Adjartey said this year’s event would run for six weeks before the grand finale to declare the winners of the Face of Ga-Dangme 2019.
According to her, some of the pre-activities for this year’s edition include auditions slated for September 28, photo shoot, unveiling of FOGD 2019 contestants, culture night (root of Ga-Dangme tribes), cooking competition, career guide training, among others.
She indicated that the audition is expected to attract a large number of young enterprising ladies, adding that the judges for the audition would be looking out for attributes like confidence, intelligence, determination and beauty.
The CEO, however, hinted that the grand finale of the pageant would come off on November 30.
Launching the event, Daddy Bosco commended Lark Empire team for the good work they have done over the years and entreated them to continue projecting Ga-Dangme’s history and cultural values through the beauty pageant.
Sponsors for the pageant are BrainArtz, Sound Masters Entertainment, Black Phases Modelling Agency, Afrowan-Ted Vogue, ABN Advertising, Lark Foundation, Lark Special Shito, Gilly Gabi Designs, Lark Models, LarkDivasgh, Oye Trend and Tetki’s Beads.