South African model, Refilwe Modiselle, is featured on the most recent edition of CNN‘s African Voices. She speaks on her strong family ties, living with looking different, and the challenges of being an albino in Africa."I was being tenacious and saying 'no, wait a minute. This is a different representation of what African beauty is,'" Modiselle tells CNN.
"You're told that a black child should be brown-skinned, but what do you then call a girl like myself? I'm not tall either. But there I was modeling with the likes of your Adiambo's, your famous models that have really done well.""I was defying everything about what society says defines a model. I'm basically saying 'OK, let's teach our kids a different definition of beauty, or a definition that's always been there but has just always been disregarded."
Albinism is an inherited condition caused by a lack of melanin, a pigment in skin, hair and eyes. While it is fairly common globally -- one in every 17,000 people are born with some form of the genetic disorder -- albinos across Africa are often subject to discrimination and even, in some countries, hunted and killed because of their appearance.
"People with albinism are often not given the opportunity to get into such industries because we're not known as extroverts, we're not given a chance to be identified in society as people who have the potential to represent something," she says.
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