World's first albino beauty pageant held in Kenya
The world's first beauty pageant for people with albinism, a disorder due to which people have pale skin from lack of pigment, was recently held in Nairobi, Kenya.The competition, with the motto 'Beauty Beyond the Skin', was organised to challenge the stigma associated with albinism. Notably, albinism affects up to one in 15,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa.