The Nigerian beauty pageant industry positions itself as working to symbolically restore the public face of the nation while seeking to materially shift the private lives of affiliates on the ground.

Oluwakemi M. Balogun is Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Oregon.

1. The Nigerian Factor
2. Snapshots of Nigerian Pageantry
3. The Making of Beauty Diplomats
4. Miss Cultural and Miss Cosmopolitan
5. The Business of Beauty
6. As Miss World Turns
7. After the Spotlight