Twenty-five-year-old Amaniah Cort was on Saturday evening last crowned Miss Emancipation 2017, when the Pageant was hosted at the National Cultural Centre.
Cort is a Sociologist who announced during her STEM Project interview that she was fortunate to have been given the opportunity to continue in the pageant after she discovered that she was pregnant. 
She went on to explain that the she was grateful for the opportunity to promote STEM within her community of Kuru Kururu where she partnered with STEM Guyana. Coming in as first runner-up was 18-year-old Scentell Alder who is pursuing a degree in Marketing at the Nation’s University, while Ayana Glasgow, 18, a CAPE student was the second runner-up.
Dr Melissa Varswyk, President of the Miss Emancipation committee emphasised that the objectives of the show is to promote African culture and STEM.
She informed that delegates are not chosen based on common criteria for pageantry, but on their ability to fulfil the show’s objectives.
The pageant which came to an end just before the stroke of mid-night, started with an introduction segment of spoken words on the theme for the Decade for People of African Descent.
This was followed by the African business wear segment, STEM Project presentation and African evening gown segments. The question and answer segment stemmed from lectures given by Dr Ng-A-Qui of the Cuffy 250 committee.
The judges for the show were Dr Dawn Stewart, Dr David Hinds, Nicole Ng-A-Qui, Shammane Joseph-Jackson and Robert Forrester.
