….Diamond Platnumz, Davido, Teniola, Fally Ipupa, AKA,
Shatta wale, Amara Brown, DJ Arafat make the Regional Category list
....Continental Category scheduled for Release on August 23
.....Voting to commence from September 1 to November 22,
2019
.....AFRIMA Main Events slated for November 20-23, 2019
The African Union, AU and the International Committee of the
All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA unveiled the Nominees' list (regional category)
for its 6th edition at a World Media Conference on Wednesday, August 14, 2019,
at the Abora Hall, of Eko Hotels And Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria
With an array of music industry professionals, artiste and
music journalist in attendance to witness the unveiling of 2019 Nominees' list
for Regional and Continental category emerged from the 8,157 songs/videos
received as entries from its online portal which closed earlier on August 2,
2019. The unveiling event was broadcast on African Independent Television
(AIT), RayPower Fm and Kennis Music FM as the remaining 25 continental
categories will be released on Friday, August 23, 2019 after auditing by the
International auditors of AFRIMA.
The Regional category for Best Female Artistes and Best Male
Artistes of the five regions (Western, Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Central
Africa) have been thoroughly selected from the entries to reveal artiste who
will be competing at the 2019 awards ceremony.
This year's list showcases a wide range of creativity and
talents both from new and known artiste across the regions. Artiste like Shatta
Wale, Kizz Daniel, Salif Keita, Burna Boy will be competing for the Best Male
category in Western Africa, while Teniola, Simi, Aya Nakamura, Mzvee, Yemi
Alade amongst others will be competing for the Best Female category in Western
Africa. Dominating Central Africa include Cameroonian artiste Blanche Baily,
Charlotte Dipanda, Daphne alongside their male counterpart Locko, Magasco and
Salatiel.
For Eastern Africa; we have great contenders including
Sheebah from Uganda; Vanessa Mdee from Tanzania; Nikita Kering from Kenya with
Tanzanian Diamond platinum, Rayvanny, Mboso, and Kenyan Khaligraph Jones and
Nyashinski.
Moroccan Yann'Sine, Ahmed Soultan, Amiinux, and Algerian
Soolking with Cairokee from Egypt, Salma Rachid from Morocco will be battling
it out in the Northern region for Best Male and Female category.
A huge representation for South African artiste as they hold
sway over the Southern African region for both Male and Female categories.
These artistes include AKA, Nasty C, Cassper Nyovest, Sjava, Black Coffee,
Kelly Khumalo, Zonke, Nadia Nakai among others. Amara Brown, Tamy Moyo, Jah
Prayzah, and Winky D also lock down few spots for Zimbabwe in the Southern
regional category.
The Continental category comprising of different genres of
music will be released Friday, August 23rd following an auditing process from
the international auditors of AFRIMA.
Drawing from their pool of experience and professionalism,
the 13-man jury, guided by the AFRIMA acronym FACEIT which stands for Fairness,
Authenticity, Creativity, excellence, Integrity, and Transparency underwent a
week-long process of thoroughly screening, categorizing, assessing, and grading
from the thousands of entries in order to arrive at the best reflection of rich
and creative talents embedded in African music, reviewed songs were produced
between the period of August 1, 2018, to August 2, 2019.
Mr. Chris Syren, representing Southern Africa, speaking on
behalf of the AFRIMA jury, gave a report on their activities including the
tireless and assiduous process they had to embark upon during adjudication, the
quality of works received, criteria for selection, and the voting process. He
commended AFRIMA for its sense of inclusiveness and unity at leading the
conversation of using music as a tool for integration and shared prosperity in
Africa. The Head of Culture, Africa Union, Mrs. Angela Martins, via a video
conference expressed her excitement of this year’s AFRIMA, its capacity to
promote the African culture positively as well as called for more support for
the continental initiative.
The AFRIMA online voting platform is set to open to the
public on Sunday, September 1 and will run till November 22, where both
continental and regional nominees in the 36 AFRIMA awarding categories will compete
against one another for the coveted 23.9 carats gold-plated AFRIMA Trophy.
Nominees will depend on their fans and followers spread
across the globe to vote for them in an open voting process via the AFRIMA
website, www.afrima.org
The 2019 AFRIMA ceremony scheduled to hold on November
20-23, 2019 during a four-day fiesta of music, glamour, Afrocentricism and
entertainment in the official awards Host City will commence with the Welcome
Soiree followed by the AFRIMA Music Village, the Host City Tour, the Africa
Music Business Summit, the exclusive Nominees Party and concludes with the live
Awards Ceremony.
Fans of African music globally can follow along and take
part in the AFRIMA 2019 events on social media, live stream on the AFRIMA website,
the AFRIMA App and by tuning to over 84 television stations which are AFRIMA
partners.
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