South African model Thando Hopa is the first Albino woman to cover Vogue.
OkayAfrica reports Hopa, a model, lawyer, and activist, is on Vogue Portugal’s April “Africa Motherland” edition. Vogue stated that the magazine issue is an ode “to origins” and to “Africa, as the birthplace of mankind,” its tweet translated.
Hopa shared the captivating cover photo to her Instagram, writing that the honor is one that she hadn’t even considered to be a possibility for herself.
“I once said to a close friend that it would really be lovely to see a woman with albinism on a Vogue Cover,” Hopa wrote. “I would not have imagined that that woman would be me. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for,'” Hopa quoted of the famous saying by poet June Jordan.
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OkayAfrica noted that albinism, a skin condition that lacks pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes, still harbors negative connotations and even violent consequences in South Africa as well as many other African nations.
What Vogue has done is not just historical but progressive and given the magnitude of the publication, has played a major role in highlighting how people living with albinism are exactly that people.
As reported by The Sauce, Vogue Arabia made history by featuring three black hijabi models on their April cover.
Vogue Portugal’s April issue has two covers, the stunning British-Sudanese model, Alek Wek, graces the second cover.
