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Cynthia Kanema

Model and beauty queen from Zambia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ140196429 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cynthia Kanema (born 1983) is a female model from Zambia. The first person that competed in all Big Four pageants.

Born in 1983. Crowned as Miss Zambia representing Lusaka in 2003. On 6 Dec. 2003, she competed in Miss World 2003 in Sanya, China. On 16 Oct, 2004, competed in Miss International 2004 in Beijing.

On 31 May 2005, she competed in Miss Universe 2005 in Nonthaburi province, Thailand as Miss Zambia Universe. After this pageant, she was appointed tourism ambassador for Thailand.

On 23 Oct, 2005, competed in Miss Earth 2005 in Quezon City, Philippines.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cynthia Kanema” as model and beauty queen from Zambia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2003, 2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Cynthia, Kanema and Model can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as model and beauty queen from Zambia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140196429. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cynthia Kanema” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.