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AU, AFRIMA
ANNOUNCED 5TH AWARDS NOMINEES LIST AS PUBLIC VOTING BEGINS MONDAY 27TH
AUGUST, 2018
BY
MILES OLU & CHIDINMA CHIEDOZIE
The worldwide anticipated nominees list
for the fifth All Africa Music Awards AFRIMA has been uncommonly unveiled the
African Union Commission (AUC) and the international Jury of AFRIMA by a global
media briefing held recently at Eko Hotels and Suite, Victoria Island,Lagos As
the announced nominees list covers the five regional categories which are
divided into male and female categories which run as follows:
Ø Best male artiste in Northern Africa
Ø Best male artiste in Eastern Africa
Ø Best male artiste in Southern Africa
Ø Best male artiste in Western Africa
Ø Best male artiste in Central Africa and the female
categories that run as follows:
Ø Best female artiste in Northern Africa
Ø Best female artiste in Eastern Africa
Ø Best female artiste inWestern Africa
Ø Best female artiste in Southern Africa
Ø Best female artiste in Central Africa adding that a
total 79 songs did make it to the regional nominees list as Cameroon took up
four of the eight spots in the category for best female artiste in Central
Africa, followed by Democratic Republic of Congo two, and Angola two adding
that the category for best male artiste in Central Africa, Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) took the lead with five slots followed by Cameroon two and Chad one.
From Eastern Africa, the female category
Kenya held three slots while Uganda did take two with Ethiopia, Rwanda
and Tanzania occupying one nomination slot respectively adding that in the male
category Kenya and Tanzania maintained three nomination, each while Ethiopia
and Uganda grabbing one slot apiece as the Algerian female artiste had a lead
ahead of their male counterparts as they did take four out of the six spots in
the category for best female artiste in Northern Africa with Tunisia and Egypt
one slot each.
Ø The male category had Moroccan artiste, occupying
four of the eight spots, Algeria two as Egypt and Tunisia earned one slot
apiece. The Southern African artistes both in the male and female categories
with a total of nine spots, followed by Zimbabwe three, while Swaziland,
Namibia, Malawi and Zimbabwe earned one slot each as the Western region male
category had great contenders between Nigeria and Ghana earning up four slots
for Nigeria, closely followed by Ghana three as well as Guinea and Cape Verde
had one slot each.
Ø As the best female artiste in the western region has
Nigerian andGhana were in a tie of two slots each while Benin had one, male
one, Senegal one and Coted’ Vlore one adding that insights into the process by
which the entries were reviewed and graded as the spokesperson for the
international jury of AFRIMA and the ProgrammeDirector, Cameroon Television and
Radio CRTV, Mr. Robert Ekukole (representing Eastern Africa) elucidated to the
members of the press that task with the responsibility of careful and
diligently fittering through 8,009 entries submitted by African music
professionals within the awardsvalidity duration of August 1st, 2017to
August 1st, 2018.
Ø As the jury member had no choice, but to be through
and deliberated about their work because they would be doing artistes and creators
of these works a great injustice if they don’t accord them the review their
works deserves adding that the AFRIMA nominees list they did arrive at
reflected and represented the top-notch creative expressions of music talents and
professionals within the relevant regions and validity period, but, however,
they also had a challenge where some artistes did fail to enter for the awards
and as such missed the opportunity to be evaluated or possibly nominated for
AFRIMA.
Ø The AFRIMA
adjudication was carried out electronically through proprietary AFRIMA
adjudication software, which was designed by AFRIMA in 2014 had been, developed
for use since the 2015 annual adjudication process adding that the public
voting opens on the AFRIMA website on Monday 27, 2018 both continental and
regional nominees in the 38 AFRIMA awards categories would compete against one
another for the uncommon 23. 9 carat gold plated medal AFRIMA trophy as
nominees would now depended on votes from their fans and followers which spread
across the entire globe to vote for their songs in an open voting process
through the AFRIMA website www.afrima.org.
Ø The members of the press were told that from August
7, 2018. when the annual adjudication process did begin, that the 13 man
international AFRIMA jury worked unimaginably and uncommonly in assessing and
grading the submitted entries which astronomically increase of 63% against the
2017 entries received by AFRIMA adding the parameters considered by the
international jury during the adjudication process, as jury member representing diaspora (North
America) HadjaKobelekerta, a music executive with work expertise in
international music firms like universal music’s Africa and island Africa,
noted that AFRIMA goal which is all about rewarding and promoting talents and
creativity in Africa as AFRIMA had specific guidelines they followed in considering
nominees woks that were nominated annually, besides these guideline they also
looked out forthequality of works submitted adding that an artiste’spopularity
would not influence the jury is judgment just because an artiste had 100
million views on YouTube don’t actually guarantee making the list, unless such
works were produced with high quality and represented the continent properly
adding that other guidelines the jury considered were the currency of trends
and market position.
Ø At Eko Hotels and suites, Victoria Island Lagos
members of the press were largely informed that AFRIMA clean voting system
would take place through the AFRIMA Website, www.afrima.org as music lovers would be empowered to deftly decide
which artiste, song become winners, of the uncommon 23.9 carat gold medal
plated AFRIMA trophy adding that the fifth AFRIMA had been slated to DV in
November 2018 as other activities programmed for the main competitions shouldbe
the Africa Music Business Roundtables a combination of musical conferences and trade
expo where stakeholders in the creative and arts sector would gather around to
deliberate the business of music in Africa, also the AFRIMA music village, a
music concert and cultural extravaganza that would pleasantly accommodate over
40,000, music lovers continentally the list of the nominees are hereby
displayed for readers understandings and all that.
Picture Caption
Jury Photo 1
From left to right
TABU OSUSA- Representative of Eastern Africa,
DELANI MAKHALIMA- Representive of Southern Africa,
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America),
JOETT- Representative of Eastern Africa,
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative,
BOB EKUKOLE- Representative of Central Africa,
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe),
CHARLES TABU- Representative of Central Africa,
OLISAH ADIBUA- Representative of Western Africa
Jury Photo 2
JOETT- Representative of Eastern Africa, Mike Dada, President/Executive
Producer, AFRIMA,
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative, and
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe).
Jury Photo 3
TABU OSUSA- Representative of Eastern Africa,
DELANI MAKHALIMA- Representive of Southern Africa,
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America).
Jury Photo 4
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America), JOETT-
Representative of Eastern Africa, and Mike Dada, President/Executive
Producer, AFRIMA.
Jury Photo 5
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative, HADHA KOBELE KEITA-
Representative of Diaspora (North America),
DELANI MAKHALIMA- Representive of Southern Africa, TABU OSUSA-
Representative of Eastern Africa, and
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe).
Jury Photo 6
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative
Jury Photo 7
TABU OSUSA- Representative of Eastern Africa
Jury Photo 8
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe)
Jury Photo 9
BOB EKUKOLE- Representative of Central Africa
Jury Photo 10
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America)
Jury Photo 1
From left to right
TABU OSUSA- Representative of Eastern Africa,
DELANI MAKHALIMA- Representive of Southern Africa,
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America),
JOETT- Representative of Eastern Africa,
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative,
BOB EKUKOLE- Representative of Central Africa,
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe),
CHARLES TABU- Representative of Central Africa,
OLISAH ADIBUA- Representative of Western Africa
Jury Photo 2
JOETT- Representative of Eastern Africa, Mike Dada, President/Executive
Producer, AFRIMA,
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative, and
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe).
Jury Photo 3
TABU OSUSA- Representative of Eastern Africa,
DELANI MAKHALIMA- Representive of Southern Africa,
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America).
Jury Photo 4
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America), JOETT-
Representative of Eastern Africa, and Mike Dada, President/Executive
Producer, AFRIMA.
Jury Photo 5
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative, HADHA KOBELE KEITA-
Representative of Diaspora (North America),
DELANI MAKHALIMA- Representive of Southern Africa, TABU OSUSA-
Representative of Eastern Africa, and
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe).
Jury Photo 6
ANGELA MARTINS- African Union Representative
Jury Photo 7
TABU OSUSA- Representative of Eastern Africa
Jury Photo 8
RITA RAY- Representative of the Diaspora (Europe)
Jury Photo 9
BOB EKUKOLE- Representative of Central Africa
Jury Photo 10
HADHA KOBELE KEITA- Representative of Diaspora (North America)
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