"I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.
"I think that it is time that that stops today."
That's the message from newly-crowned Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi, who is from South Africa.
And the nappy headed, bongo party celebration is already unfolding!Zozibini is the first black woman to win the competition since Leila Lopes in 2011.
The Angolan former winner congratulated her in a post on Instagram, writing: "Congrats girl you did us very proud."
Relfecting [sic] on her win, Zozibini wrote: "Tonight a door was opened and I could not be more grateful to have been the one to have walked through it.
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