University Student wins Miss Zambia 2008

A student from the University of Zambia was crowned as the 2008 Miss Zambia, Winfridah Mofu (photo) beating out 15 other hopefuls in a beauty pageant held at Livingstone’s Zambezi Sun Hotel.

Winfridah is in her fourth and last year of library and information studies and economics, a double major, said her victory was a gift from God because all the contestants had been excellent in their performance.

Winfridah was followed by Musunga Sue Chuzu as first princess and Sekwila Mumba as second princess. She said she had won other crowns before such as Miss Unza 2005, Miss Intercontinental 2007 first princess and represented Zambia at the top model beauty contest held in Egypt last January.

The new Zambian beauty queen's hobbies include reading, dancing, singing and travelling, said each contest she had taken part in, contributed greatly to her current status and achievement and made her go as far she had gone.

She is expecting to represent Zambia in Miss Universe beauty pageant in Vietnam or in Miss World beauty contest in Ukraine.