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Beauty pageantry and lost glamour

By stevens Muendo

Ajuma Naisenyana had just landed her track scholarship to join elites after winning 400 and 800 metres Kenya Junior Championships in 2002. But her track dreams were never to be as Miss Tourism scouts spotted her in dusty town of Lodwar. And soon the running career was shelved for a more glamorous career in modelling. Now Ajuma as Pulse predicted in 2003 is one of the world’s top African models.

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