Demach was crowned as Miss World Africa 2012 in China during the grand final of Miss World 2012 beauty pageant held in the northeastern Chinese mining city of Ordos , Inner Mongolia , located on the edge of the Gobi desert . This made her the first South Sudanese to win the title since Miss World 's creation in 1951 . During the preliminaries , she also won the Miss World Top Model title , making her the first African and the first black woman to win this title
Miss World 2012
Miss World 2012
Atong Demach