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Marlène-Kany Kouassi biography: 10 things about Miss Côte d'Ivoire 2022

Marlène-Kany Kouassi is an Ivorian model and beauty queen with a law degree. Here are 10 more things about her:

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Rousseau Family History

A rough outline. Note that this is a very rough draft of their story and there may be inconsistencies with the timeline yet. However, I came up with this several weeks ago and have tried to edit some bits to be more historically/geographically accurate but also lore accurate to my blurbs/characters. (~2600 words/4.5 pages)

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Back in the halcyon days of the 60s, Kouassi Rousseau took advantage of his country’s (Côte d'Ivoire) new independence and strong alliance with France to start a little business. He and his friends began running errands and carrying loads of goods and parcels for people/businesses and they were good at it. He was good at managing the group, especially, and the little side business grew and grew. Eventually he named the company after himself officially and got an actual business license and everything was looking amazing. He had a son, Moussa, who he ensured from a very young age knew what to do and how to take over the business when he eventually passed.

The family quickly became wealthy and grew a small empire within the Côte d'Ivoire and nearby countries, as much as they could. The real money came from France. When Moussa was a teen in the early 80s, they relocated the business’s headquarters to Bordeaux and brought a small community with them; Ivorians who wanted to immigrate to stay with the business. There was still a location in the C d’I, keeping that branch running and those who didn’t want to leave their home country employed. 

France in the mid-eighties offered Moussa a whole new slice of life. He was young, rich, and very handsome. He was tall and built well, had beautiful dark skin and traditionally handsome, chiseled features that the locals adored. The locals being the men and drag queens, no doubt. By day he was his father’s perfect little protégé, by night he was living it up in the gay discotheques without a care in the world. He was exotic, afterall, and a prize choice for many others.

Once his father caught wind of this the abuse began-- the verbal abuse was beyond words and the physical abuse only ramped up with every passing month. Until his son literally straightened up and got away from that disgusting, heretical lifestyle, the abuse was promised to continue. He was threatened with being cut off, but Moussa was no fool-- he was the only heir, after all. So, he kept going, and kept accepting his fate. He had a favorite drag queen that he was obsessed with, and a ‘friend’ from his university that offered him shelter during the worst of his father’s tirades (assuming he could escape). 

The late 80's approached and something spooked Moussa-- he stopped going to the clubs, he broke things off with his queen and his friend. His own father was getting up there in years and his health wasn’t ideal. Moussa took a wife, another Ivorian immigrant who was meek and naive and thought this handsome man truly loved her. He was a bit of a conman at this point, at least in his personal life; after all those years of deceiving his father he had learned how to lie like the best of them. As planned, she was quickly made pregnant, but their child was not born before Kouassi Rousseau passed away. 

The family hardly mourned; his original employees and business partners were more broken up over the loss than his son was. At first it was because they lost a friend, but then they realize what sort of tyrant Moussa had become. He was everything his father was in terms of business sense and leadership, but so very bitter and cold. 

In September of 1990 Moussa Rosaire Rousseau was born in the most blessed life. He was a very fat baby and was heralded to be so big and strong as to overshadow his own father, truly a king amongst men! By that time the family business had become a small empire, absorbing other business in the same industry and growing into several other related, but niche, corners of the market. He was to be the eldest son and take over the business, but it turned out he would be the only son.

Moussa (Sr.) had little interest in his wife, and they never had another child; partly because he simply did not care for her and could hardly bring himself to be with her. She passed away when her son was nearly 4 after a very short, very intense fight against metastatic breast cancer. She was relatively young and quite healthy; how it took her so quickly was a mystery to those outside the hospital, but Moussa knew, and she learned the sickening truth when she was mere days from death. The man, once so handsome, strong and perfect, had become infected with HIV at some point during his galivanting. What spooked him into marrying was the fear that he would develop AIDS and neglect having an heir of his own. Knowing this, but keeping it secret of course, he married the woman, infected her as they tried for a child, and left her in the dark. Her body was weakened and its own efforts to stave off the earliest stages of her initial cancer were thwarted by the disease as it worsened far faster than her husband’s case.

She was grateful her son was not born with the disease; when she found out that she was positive she demanded he be tested. It was a relief to hear he was healthy, hours before her own passing. 

Rosaire [roʊzaɪir], and he was lovingly called his mother, was the apple of her eye for those four years. They looked alike, acted quite similar (as much as a young child can), and were very much attached at the hip. He had a nanny who aided his mother, a woman who would become his mother figure once his birth mother passed, and the three of them lived an absolutely wonderful life while Moussa was busy with his empire.

As soon as that woman passed, though, it would signal a complete shift in Rosaire’s life. Sharp blue eyes, petite frame and sweet voice: he could have been his mother reincarnate and Moussa loathed that. Where was his kingly son? Where was the young man, born in his image, that would take over his companies and grow their wealth and dominate all around him? Who was this slight waif of a boy that enjoyed his studies and playing dolls with the nanny? The nanny was instructed, in no uncertain terms, to cease all such behaviors-- teach Rosaire to be a man or lose your employment.

The years did not treat the elder Moussa well-- he was growing more and more thin and sick, but kept his verbal whip at the ready whenever his son was around. He never referred to the young boy by his preferred name, never gave any of his interests the time of day. He never laid a hand on his son, but the verbal and emotional abuse was through the roof. 

Due to booming business and the company president's desire for more and more money and power, the Rousseau Corporation branched out and went global. Around the year 2000, Rosaire turning ten years old, a significant amount of market research yielded the advice to open up a second headquarters (as in for a sister company or a major subsidiary) in... Japan. The child did not understand and was completely distraught; he would much, much later learn that there were substantial financial incentives to do so. His father barely spoke passable English and had strong ties to France at this point in his adult life, but it was worth the upheaval. They would make do, of course they would... they were the Rousseau family! 

Afterall, there was an excellent academy in the city they were relocating too; one that catered to businessmen and a local military base and other immigrants to the area. Moussa assured his son-- well, informed him-- that he would do well to keep at his studies at this academy and perfect his English and learn the local language because they were here to stay. 

The stress of the move, the not-so-casual racism the family faced, and adolescence about to hit like a sledgehammer… Rosaire was not happy. He hated this new place; everything about it was wrong. He couldn’t even find peace at home because there he would have abuse hailed down on him for not being exactly what his father had wanted out of an heir. He wasn’t tall, he wasn’t handsome by his father’s standards, and he certainly wasn’t much of a man. He was constantly torn down and disparaged while at the exact same time being told he was an extremely important person and had to be perfect. He was the sole heir and had to act as such, had to be that king amongst men, as his father withered away with his hidden disease.

The fear of his father turned into pure hate and disgust as Rosaire struggled with his once-beloved studies as a teen. He barely passed the entrance exams to get into senior high school, and only did so under a very severe threat of being disowned by his father. (And his father was not the empty-threat type.) All the while he was exploring himself, his budding sexuality and his true personality in secret. He would swear his chauffeur/assistant to secrecy, he would swear his nanny to secrecy, he would swear Fabienne (his absolute closest friend in the whole world, and basically his sister) to secrecy, and he was damned lucky that they were loyal and sympathetic to the young man.

Once his father caught wind and had proof-positive that his son was engaging in such atrocious, filthy behavior, the hammer came down. Rosaire’s life became a nightmare and he was walking on the thinnest of ice, toeing the sharpest of lines, in order to try to find balance between his father’s abuse and what he wanted and needed from life. He couldn’t be himself, couldn’t find love or pursue interests that were outside the boundaries of his family’s estate. He was constantly followed by a ‘security associate’ as well as his chauffeur and while neither would divulge anything they happened to witness to Moussa they wouldn’t encourage it of the boy either. The chauffeur especially knew the full truth -- he had been in the family’s employ for many years and saw first hand how the boy’s father was in his own youth. It was a sickening display of incredibly abusive hypocrisy, but what was he supposed to do about it?

Cut your fucking hair! Keep it short, like a real man! I’ll rip those extensions right out, get over here! I found another blouse in your wardrobe; you’ll find it shredded on your bed. If I catch you with another piece of jewelry, you are done for! Why do you insist on looking like some kind of fag?

Near the end of Rosaire’s first year at a very impressive university, Moussa Rousseau finally died. It was unceremonious and while his staff and his family paid lip service to the man, none were too distraught. His business partners, especially those back in France, were upset and didn’t really know what to do. Afterall, Rosaire was too young to inherit the company (though he inherited everything else), and it seemed that in the wake of his father’s death the young man was too busy celebrating to care.

He was free to do what he wanted with whomever he wanted and lived that life exclusively while just barely keeping afloat in school. He began to fail classes and lose touch with reality as, really, he had little else left to lose. It’s not like he was going to run out of money-- his father’s second-in-command in the country had taken over and was running the empire just fine. There was a stipulation in Moussa’s iron-clad will that his son would have nothing to do with running the business in more than a learning sense until he had acquired specific levels of education and was of a certain age. 

Though she did attend university, Fabienne was always at Rosaire's side. She was his rock emotionally, whether she wanted to be or not, and served as his personal assistant. It allowed her to have a highly paid job with the man who was basically her brother, and plenty of free time to pursue her own interests while Rosaire was either in class or off doing god-knows-what. Being the opposite of him in terms of personality served their relationship well over their lives, but his antics were starting to wear her thin.

And Fabienne was the one who finally talked some sense into Rosaire, making him see the mess that his life was becoming after some big to-do (as-of-yet undetermined in nature!). She was grateful that horrible man, that tormentor, was gone; it was a huge relief for her best friend. However, this was not the way to celebrate, not the path in life to take, and it took a year and a half but she finally got her friend to realize what he was doing. Using his body, however he pleased and however his string of lovers pleased, was not the solution to his problem.

It took a very hard metaphorical slap from Fabienne (and maybe a real one) for Rosaire to realize that he was not the worst person in the history of the world-- the most disappointing person to exist. A failure, both in personality and nature as well as physically, and absolutely out of his mind if he thought that living like that was the right thing to do. That metaphorical slap also cleared him on his father’s obvious manipulations: that Rosaire was meant to be perfect and had to be perfect. The perfect disappointment was sent to oration classes and etiquette lessons, fit into the perfect clothes and fed a diet to try and bulk his muscles; he was sent to the gym, to a personal trainer, and chastised and verbally whipped when results were far from apparent. (Unfortunately, a lot of this was normalized as it was mirrored in how Fabienne was treated, but any progress the girl made was met with praise and applause.)

Rosaire has really only the one one true friend in Fabienne. They are attached at the hip throughout most of their youth, separated only during travel and during the turbulent couple years after Moussa’s death. He has an incredible spread of acquaintances and of networking contacts, and of course business contacts from apprenticing with his father and his associates. He is very charismatic, partly by nature and partly from the endless lessons his father had him take on how to present himself. Despite that charisma and his business sense, he’s quite cold and very, very straightforward with people. He does not tell lies, not even little white ones, as he was too terrified to do so after his upbringing. Besides, what’s the point? Be who you are and you’ll get what you want. Once he regains control of the Rousseau Corporation from the business partner (after an amazingly pointless legal battle fought in three different countries) he grows the business, expands it, and before he’s in his late twenties he’s shooting up the list of the wealthiest in his country. He’s an oddity-- a dark-skinned black man who dresses very femme, rules his company with an iron fist yet has given an insurmountable sum of money to various charitable organizations (starting in his youth, behind his father's back); he’s fair to his household employees and is strict with his directors and upper management teams to be fair to their employees. He firmly believes that fairness and generosity will breed strong bonds and loyalty. Things he never had from a family; he turns his business into his family. He treats the Louissants (Fabienne and her parents) as if they were his family.

Now, would the Rousseau family line ever continue?

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[TASK 149: THE BAHAMAS]

In celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 250+ Bahamian faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Debbie Cameron / Deborah Cameron (1958) Afro-Bahamian - singer.

Janine Antoni (1964) Bahamian - artist.

Wendy Coakley-Thompson (1966) Afro-Bahamian - author.

Persia White (1972) Afro-Bahamian / Irish - actress, singer-songwriter, and model.

Sydney Tamiia Poitier (1973) Afro-Bahamian / Lithuanian Jewish, Irish - actress.

Trina / Katrina Taylor (1974) Afro-Bahamian / Afro-Dominican - rapper and tv personality.

Brettina / Brettina Robinson (1976) Afro-Bahamian - actress, singer-songwriter, and model.

Jeanene Fox (1978) Afro-Bahamian / Italian, Scottish - tv personality, model, and interior designer.

Tia Mowry (1978) Afro-Bahamian [including Ghanaian, Ivorian, Cameroonian, Congolese, Malian] / Irish, British, Unspecified Iberian, Unspecified Other European - actress.

Shakara Ledard (1979) Afro-Bahamian / French - actress and model.

Maryke Hendrikse (1979) Bahamian - actress.

Kourtney Brown (1984) Bahamian - actor, tv host, model, and visual artist.

Denia Nixon (1986) Afro-Bahamian - model.

Anastagia Pierre (1988) Afro-Bahamian - actress and model.

Whitney Thompson (1987) 1/16 Bahamian, 15/16 mix of Irish, Scottish, English - model.

Toria Nichole / Toria Nichole Penn (1988) Afro-Bahamian - model and Miss Universe Bahamas 2015.

Zoë Kravitz (1988) 1/8 Afro-Bahamian, 3/8 African-American, 7/16 Russian Jewish, 1/16 Belarusian Jewish - actress, singer, and model.

Ayisa Adderley (1993) Bahamian / Filipina - actress and singer.

Mecca White (1995) Afro-Bahamian, Irish / Unknown - actress, singer, and filmmaker.

Kendearia Pratt (1995) Afro-Bahamian - youtuber (Kendearia & Ricardo).

Chase Carter (1997) Afro-Bahamian / Unspecified White - model.

Angelique Sabrina (1998) Afro-Bahamian - singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress.

Nique (2000) Afro-Bahamian - instagrammer (kissmyspiffyness).

Sasha Fox / Sasha Gabriella Fox (2000) Afro-Bahamian, Italian, Scottish / African-American, English, Welsh, Unconfirmed Unspecified Native American - actress and filmmaker.

Neshuh B. (2000) Afro-Bahamian - funimate star (OfficialNeshuhB).

Nyah Bandelier (2000 or 2001) Bahamian - model Miss World Bahamas 2019.

Haylie Turnquest (2002) Afro-Bahamian - mode (Instagram: haylie_turnquest)

Ashley Hanna (?) Afro-Bahamian - Miss Bahamas Universe 2016.

Kendra Beneby (?) Afro-Bahamian - model.

Saida Karamo (?) Afro-Bahamian - model, actress and singer (Instagram: saidakaramo).

Tiasha Lewis (?) Afro-Bahamian - beauty queen and model (Instagram: queen.tiasha).

Meecah (?) Afro-Bahamian - model, actress, and singer.

Bekuh / beautybybekuh (?) Afro-Bahamian, British, Unknown - Instagrammer (beautybybekuh).

Chelsea Se'Anne (?) Afro Puerto Rican, Bahamian, African-American, Unspecified White - model (Instagram: model_citizensb).

Ariel Newbold (?) Afro-Bahamian - singer (Instagram: _heyyitsari).

Leah Eneas (?) Bahamian - actress and singer.

Syngular Journeé (?) Afro-Bahamian - singer (Instagram: syngularjournee).

Zaafira (?) Afro-Bahamian- singer (Instagram: zaafiramusic).

Jasy Davis (?) Afro-Bahamian - actress and model.

Phara (?) Afro-Bahamian - model (Instagrammer: _pretty_phara).

Antonia.S (?) Afro-Bahamian - model (Instagram: antonya._).

Alexandria P. (?) Afro-Bahamian - model (Instagram: alexandria_pinder).

Michelle E. Louidor (?) Afro-Bahamian - model (Instagram: me_louidor).

Nyesha Carissa (?) Afro-Bahamian - Mrs. Galaxy Bahamas (Instagram: nyeshacarissa).

Tomii Culmer (?) Afro-Bahamian - Miss Universe Bahamas 2014.

Sarafine Andres (?) Bahamian, Indian, Jamaican  - Instagrammer (sarafine_andres).

The Find (?) Afro-Bahamian - Youtuber (The Find Guru) and Instagrammer (goldennn_xo).

Nathaniel Prince Lewis (?) Bahamian - producer, actor, and screenwriter.

Cindy Raphael (?) Bahamian, Haitian - actress.  

Shelly P. (?)  Afro-Bahamian - YouTuber.

TAP (?) Jamaican, Bahamian - YouTuber (Instagrammer: theycallmetap).

Sienna Evans (?) Afro-Bahamian - model (Instagram: sienna.evans).

Lori (?) Afro-Bahamian - Instagrammer (thereallovelori),

F - Athletes:

Claudette Powell (1952) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Shonel Ferguson (1957) Afro-Bahamian - track and field athlete.

Oralee Fowler (1961) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Debbie Greene (1962) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Eldece Clarke-Lewis (1965) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Laverne Eve (1965) Afro-Bahamian - track and field athlete.

Pauline Davis-Thompson (1966) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Jackie Edwards (1971) Afro-Bahamian - long jumper.

Chandra Sturrup (1971) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Dedra Davis (1973) Afro-Bahamian - long jumper.

Savatheda Fynes (1974) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough (1975) Afro-Bahamian- basketball player.

Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (1976) Afro-Bahamian- sprinter.

Tonique Williams-Darling (1976) Afro-Bahamian- sprinter.

Christine Amertil (1979) Afro-Bahamian - track and field athlete.

Tamicka Clarke (1980) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Yolett McPhee-McCuin (1983) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Shandria Brown (1983) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Nikia Deveaux (1985) Afro-Bahamian- swimmer.

Larika Russell (1985) Afro-Bahamian - tennis player.

Alana Dillette (1987) Afro-Bahamian- swimmer.

Lanece Clarke (1987) Afro-Bahamian- sprinter.

Bianca Stuart (1988) Afro-Bahamian - long jumper.

Cache Armbrister (1989) Bahamian [Jamaican] - sprinter.

Sheniqua Ferguson (1989) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (1990) Afro-Bahamian- swimmer.

Krystal Bodie (1990) Afro-Bahamian - hurdler.

Nivea Smith (1990) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Ivanique Kemp (1991) Afro-Bahamian - hurdler.

Kerrie Cartwright (1992) Afro-Bahamian - tennis player.

V'Alonee Robinson (1992) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Tamara Myers (1993) Afro-Bahamian - triple jumper.

Anthonique Strachan (1993) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson (1993) Afro-Bahamian / Unspecified - track and field athlete.

Emily Morley (1993) Bahamian - rower.

Adanaca Brown (1993) Afro-Bahamian - hurdler.

Katrina Seymour (1993) Afro-Bahamian - hurdler.

Tynia Gaither (1993) Afro-Bahamian - hurdler.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo (1994) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Jonquel Jones (1994) Afro-Bahamian- basketball player.

Devynne Charlton (1995) Afro-Bahamian- hurdler.

Carmiesha Cox (1995) Afro-Bahamian- hurdler.

Pedrya Seymour (1995) Afro-Bahamian- hurdler.

Simone Pratt (1996) Afro-Bahamian - tennis player.

Jenae Ambrose (1997) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Joanna Evans (1997) Bahamian- swimmer.

Shaquania Dorsett (1997) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Devine Parker (2000) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

M:

Sidney Poitier (1927) Afro-Bahamian - actor, director, and author.

Pat Rolle (1943/1944) Afro-Bahamian - singer.

Nile Rodgers (1952) 21/32 African-American, 1/4 Afro-Bahamian, 1/16 Unspecified Iroquois, 1/32 mix of Irish, English - singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, composer, and arranger.

Luke / Uncle Luke / Luke Skyywalker / Luther Campbell (1960) Afro-Bahamian / Afro-Jamaican - actor, rapper, record executive, and promoter.

Ron Butler / Ronnie Butler / Ronald Butler Jr (1962) Afro-Bahamian - actor, comedian, and director.

Lenny Kravitz (1964) Afro-Bahamian, African-American / Ashkenazi Jewish - singer-songwriter and actor.

Michael K. Williams / Michael Kenneth Williams (1966) Afro-Bahamian / African-American - actor.

Sebastian Bach / Sebastian Bierk (1968) Bahamian [Norwegian, Dutch, German, Scottish, English, Unconfirmed Lucayan] - actor and singer-songwriter.

Rick Fox / Ulrich Fox (1969) Afro-Bahamian / Italian, Scottish - actor, basketball player, franchise owner, and businessman.

Blue Curry (1974) Bahamian - artist.

Rik Carey (1977) Afro-Bahamian - singer and musician.

Bryan-Michael Cox (1977) Afro-Bahamian - musician-songwriter and producer.

Lil Duval / Ronald Powell (1977) Afro-Bahamian - actor, rapper, singer, comedian, and writer.

Kazi / Kharma Kazi / Chris Role (1978) Afro-Bahamian - rapper, record executive, and activist.

Tavares Strachan (1979) Afro-Bahamian - artist.

Alano Miller (1980) Bahamian, Cuban, Jamaican - actor.

Skyy John (1980) Afro-Bahamian - tv host and youtuber.

Duncan Casey (1984) Bahamian - actor.

Avvy (1984) Afro-Bahamian - singer.

Don Panton (1984) Afro-Bahamian - youtuber.

Tahj Mowry (1986) Afro-Bahamian [including Ghanaian, Ivorian, Cameroonian, Congolese, Malian] / British, Irish, Unspecified Iberian, Unspecified Other European - actor.

Dorian Foyil (1992) Bahamian - drummer and producer.

Young Raven Miyagi / Ultimate Denzel Curry / Denny Cascade / Denzel Aquarius’killa Curry / Zeltron 6 Billion / Black Metal Terrorist / Denzel Curry (1995) Afro-Bahamian - rapper-songwriter and singer.

Ahmaad Aspen / Ahmaad Aspen Grant (1995) Afro-Bahamian - singer-songwriter.

Ricardo McCartney (1995) Afro-Bahamian - youtuber (Kendearia & Ricardo).

ChristianAdamG / Christian Adam (1998) Afro-Bahamian - rapper and youtuber.

Wyldcard / Kendrick Dean (?) Afro-Bahamian - singer-songwriter, pianist, drummer, organist, and producer.

DJ Ferret / Patrick Rodgers (?) Bahamian - DJ, promoter, producer, and advocate.

Romel Kelly (?) Afro Bahamian - model (Instagram: greek_god96)

Aidan Notarfancesco (?) Bahamian, Italian - model (Instagram: a.notarfrancesco)

Gianni ''Gigi'' Smith (?) Afro-Bahamian, Belgium - dancer and model (Instagram: gianni_smith)

Jared Kemp (?) Afro-Bahamian / Unknown - actor.

Alfred Adderly (?) Afro-Bahamian, Choctaw - actor.

Adam Nicholas Brown (?) Afro-Bahamian - actor, model, and film director.

Chris Rolle (?) Afro-Bahamian - rapper, founder of a record company, and activist.

M - Athletes:

Gomeo Brennan (1939) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Laurence Burnside (1946) Bahamian - cyclist.

Cyril Pinder (1946) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Nat Knowles (1948) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Ed Armbrister (1948) Afro-Bahamian - baseball player.

Ed Smith (1950) Afro-Bahamian - American football player.

Geoffery Burnside (1950) Bahamian - cyclist.

Mychal Thompson (1955) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Andy Knowles (1955) Bahamian - swimmer.

Kendal Pinder (1956) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Lynden Rose (1960) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Steve Larrimore (1963) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Roger Smith (1964) Bahamian - tennis player.

Ray Minus (1964) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Philip Pinder (1964) Bahamian - boxer.

Lionel Haven (1965) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

David Morley (1965) Bahamian - swimmer.

Sean Nottage (1965) Bahamian - swimmer.

Tito Horford (1966) Dominican [Bahamian / Unspecified]  - basketball player.

Ian Lockhart (1967) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Kevin Davies (1967) Bahamian - footballer.

Andre Seymour (1967) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Garvin Ferguson (1968) Bahamian - swimmer.

Dexter Nottage (1970) Afro-Bahamian - American football player.

Mark Dean (1971) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Jocelyn Borgella (1971) Afro-Bahamian - American football player.

Mark Knowles (1971) Bahamian - tennis player.

Mark Merklein (1972) Bahamian - tennis player.

Allan Murray (1972) Bahamian - swimmer.

Freeman Barr (1973) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Kamal Degregory (1974) Bahamian - football player.

Nesley Jean (1975) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Damien Neville (1975) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Rhadi Ferguson (1975) Afro-Bahamian - mixed martial arts trainer, strength and conditioning coach, motivational speaker, and black belt in judo and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Samari Rolle (1976) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Yves Edwards (1976) Afro-Bahamian - mixed martial artist.

Dada 5000 / Dhafir Harris (1977) Afro-Bahamian - mixed martial artist and former internet celebrity.

Narendra Ekanayake (1977) Bahamian [Sri Lankan] - cricketer.

Christopher Murray (1978) Bahamian - swimmer.

Jermain Mackey (1979) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Damani Horton (1979) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Trevor Harvey (1980) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Gavin Christie (1981) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Anwar Ferguson (1981) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Jeremy Knowles (1981) Bahamian - swimmer.

Nicholas Rees (1982) Afro-Bahamian - swimmer.

Antrel Rolle (1982) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Alex Smith (1982) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Edner Cherry (1982) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Devard Darling (1982) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Abali Hoilett (1983) Afro-Bahamian - cricketer.

Marvin Rolle (1983) Afro-Bahamian - tennis player.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson (1983) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Mackenson Altidor (1984) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Daron Beneby (1984) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Tureano Johnson (1984) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Donald Thomas (1984) Afro-Bahamian - high jumper.

Chris Vythoulkas (1984) Bahamian - swimmer.

Torin Ferguson (1985) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Devin Mullings (1985) Afro-Bahamian - tennis player.

Myron Rolle (1986) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Dwayne Whylly (1986) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Al Horford (1986) Dominican Republic [Afro-Bahamian] - basketball player.

Magnum Rolle (1986) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Ryan Sweeting (1987) Bahamian - tennis player.

Happy Hall (1987) Bahamian - footballer.

Ramon Miller (1987) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Shemord Thompson (1987) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

J. R. Cadot (1987) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Eric Gordon (1988) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Mychel Thompson (1988) Bahamian - basketball player.

Brian Rolle (1988) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Valentino Knowles (1988) Afro-Bahamian - boxer.

Cameron Hepple (1988) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Aleks Vanderpool-Wallace (1988) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Demont Mitchell (1988) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Elvis Burrows (1989) Afro-Bahamian - swimmer.

Demetrius Pinder (1989) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Lesly St. Fleur (1989) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Dwayne Forbes (1989) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Denair Mitchell (1989) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Kadeem Coleby (1989) Afro-Bahamian - basketball player.

Geno Smith (1990) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Klay Thompson (1990) Afro Bahamian, unspecified other  - basketball player.

Michael Bethel (1990) Bahamian - footballer.

Ambry Moss (1990) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Raynaldo Sturrup (1990) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Jon Horford (1991) Afro-Bahamian, Dominican Republic - basketball player.

George Hunter (1991) Bahamian - rugby player.

Trayce Thompson (1991) Afro-Bahamian - baseball player.

Anton Sealey (1991) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

David Nesbitt (1991) Afro-Bahamian - baseball player.

Denzel Deveaux (1992) Bahamian - footballer.

Raymorn Sturrup (1992) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Buddy Hield (1992) Afro-Bahamian - baseball player.

O'Jay Ferguson (1993) Afro-Bahamian - sprinter.

Duane Beneby (1993) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Kristoff Wood (1993) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Matthew Lowe (1994) Bahamian - swimmer.

Terry Delancy (1994) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Julio Jemison (1994) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Lourawls Nairn Jr. (1994) Afro-Bahamian - baseball player.

Keanu Pinder (1995) Afro-Bahamian / Unspecified Indigenous Australian - basketball player.

Valin Bodie (1995) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Tre Barry (1996) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Dustin Tynes (1996) Afro-Bahamian - swimmer.

Jaelin Williams (1997) Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

Marcel Joseph (1997) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Isiah Collie (1997) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Troy Pinder (1997) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Devaughn Williamson (1997) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Joshua Fernander (1998) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Christopher Godet (1998) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Deandre Ayton (1998)  Afro-Bahamian - American footballer player.

N'Nhyn Fernander (1998) Afro-Bahamian - swimmer.

Re'john Ene (1999) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Ricardo McPhee (1999) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Ethan Willie (1999) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Liam Holowesko (2000) Bahamian - cyclist.

Jordan Farquharson (2000) Afro-Bahamian - footballer.

Problematic:

Al Roker (1954) Afro-Bahamian / Afro-Jamaican, African-American - actor, tv personality, weather forecaster, journalist, and author - Comments that are racist to Japanese people and defended a white weatherman over his racist remarks referring to Martin Luther King Jr.

Tamera Mowry / Tamera Mowry-Housley (1978) Afro-Bahamian [including Ghanaian, Ivorian, Cameroonian, Congolese, Malian] / British, Irish, Unspecified Iberian, Unspecified Other European - actress, model, singer, tv host, and author - Sexist/slut-shaming comments and believes one can be racist to white people.

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J’adore mon cheveaux

J’adore mon cheveaux parce que is french for I love my hair as Esther - an aspiring wedding designer studying Fashion Textiles -   is  a Black British creative of Ivorian origin. I love my hair cause it defines me as a person . I see my hair as a blank canvas in which I can create a different styles  which creates versatility .and that exicties me , there’s so many negative connotations towards natural hair but that even embraces me to show it off . For me my natural hair is my crown in which I can show off to the world .  In history African women have been told for many years that are hair is not beautiful and me bringing back history and keeping the roots of my culture alive by showing how beautiful natural hair really is . Getting to know and love my natural hair makes it easier to manage and when you love your hair your hair loves you back.

- Esther

Akosua Prempeh, a Ghanaian-British fashion media creative whose life was split both in Britain and Ghana a love poem to her hair: 

Some say they are not their hair, but for me. I am.

It’s the halo that I wear so proudly. They ask “why does it stay up...?”, because It’s the antennas that connect me to a higher power than these eyes of mine can’t see.

It’s has a direct connection to the sun.

It’s the wild forest, that grows unapologetic.

Each cornrow is interwoven with special powers, each coil hold informations of my soul on earth, my roots, my tribe.

They are the stories of those why came before me.

The soil which is my roots runs deep into my conscience, blossoms not matter the weather.

These coils are something your comb can not tame, relaxers hide in shame when they see the way they dance in the sun when I move my head.

I am my hair.

- Akosua

Joy an 18 year old 6th former of Zambian descent living in Wales shares the love she has for her hair: 

I know a lot of people when talking about natural hair they say it’s just hair. However, to me it’s not just hair. My natural hair is important to me as it represents a large part of my feminine energy. Growing up being either one of the only black girls or being the only black girl I found it hard to find my place amongst the white beauty standards. My hair was shaved and relaxed from a young age,  didn’t grow very long and wasn’t like the other girls hair which made me feel less feminine than the other girls. My journey with my natural hair has helped me feel more in touch with my feminine energy and taught that my natural hair is beautiful and doesn’t need to be straight or have a looser curl pattern to be ‘nice’. To me taking care of my hair is a way of taking care of my self. As ‘a woman’s hair is her crown and glory’ I have indeed myself grown into the queen I am through the journey of becoming natural and taking care of my hair.

- Joy

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Chidimma Adetshina, Halima Hoy, Khadija Omar, Saran Bah, Marie-Emmanuelle Diamala Who is Marie-Emmanuelle Diamala? Marie-Emmanuelle Diamala is an Ivorian beauty queen born in raised in Treichville, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. She represented the Ivory Coast in Miss Universe. Diamala is now based in Aboisso, Sud-Comoé, Côte d’Ivoire. Here are 13 more things about her: In 2022, she entered an…

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Mylene Djihony is an Ivorian beauty queen. Here are 10 more things about her: On March 9, 2024, she represented Cote d’Ivoire at Miss World 2023 and competed against 111 other candidates at the Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India. She was 23 years old when she competed at Miss World 2023 on March 9, 2024. UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Check back on March 10, 2024.