The inspiring story of the Sudanese model, who has motivated many, including Lupita Nyong’o Alek Wek was 19 when she was approached by a model scout from a top London agency at a fair in Crystal ...

We love this story so much—because having an inspiring role model is one of the most important things in the world, I think, and, also, who doesn't love Alek Wek? What does Wek have to say about ...

Editor’s Note: Alek Wek is a Sudanese-born supermodel. She was forced to leave the country because of civil war and went to Britain as a child refugee. She continues to campaign to draw ...

a woman and as a supermodel? Alek Wek: My mother has always instilled in us that we should carry ourselves with dignity despite the horror that came with the civil war. She also taught us that ...

Tooze is a member of the UNHCR team that traveled with supermodel and former refugee Alek Wek as she returned to South Sudan for the first time since her native country gained independence in July ...

Benetton enlisted a diverse array of subjects for their Spring 2013 ad campaign, including Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek and Brazilian transsexual model, Lea T. Benetton enlisted a diverse array of ...

But who inspires her? According to the moving speech she delivered at Essence’s Black Women in Hollywood event, Nyong’o acknowledged Sudanese supermodel Alek Wek to be one of her biggest ...

Alek Wek fled to Britain with her family at 14 to escape the first civil war in the Sudan. By her early twenties, she was a supermodel and muse who had become the first African woman to grace the ...