AFRIMA 2015 NOMINATION LIST

The five regions of Africa gave an impressive account of their respective music industry as the 2014 Nominees' List of the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, was unveiled on September 23, 2014 during a world press conference held at Protea Hotel Leadway, Maryland Estate, Lagos, Nigeria.
Present for the AFRIMA Panel of Jurors at the unveiling event was jury member Mr. Oscar Kidjo, a seasoned music producer, representing West Africa (Benin Republic).
Also representing the International Committee of AFRIMA were: Executive Producer/President, Mike Dada; Director Brand Communication & Sponsorship, MatlouTsotetsi; Chairman, International Media Committee, Steve Ayorinde and Co-Producer/Country Director, Nigeria, Kingsley James. Other attendees included African music industry personalities, heads of partner corporate organisations and music industry stakeholders.
Although popular names in the continental music industry showed up on the highly-anticipated Nominees' List of the awards project that is rewarding excellence by budding and established music professionals as well as journalists, the nominations of a generous number of emerging African artistes in many award categories threw more excitement into the unveiling event witnessed by local and international press as well as critical stakeholders in the music industry.
Among the well-known African music names on the nominees list are: Mafikizolo (South Africa) 6 nominations, Davido (Nigeria) 6 nominations, Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania) 2 nominations, AmrDiab (Egypt) 2 nominations, Zahara (South Africa) 3 nominations, Angelique Kidjo (Benin Republic) 2 nominations, FallyIpupa (DRC) 1 nomination, Sakordie (Ghana) 1 nomination, Tiwa Savage (Nigeria) 2 nominations, Uhuru (South Africa) 5 nominations and Mi Casa (South Africa) 4 nominations. Leading the budding music acts on AFRIMA Nominees' List is: TemiDollFace (Nigeria) 4 nominations, others are Wiyaala (Ghana) 3 nominations; Patoranking (Nigeria) 2 nominations; Davina Green (Zimbabwe) 1 nomination and Noura Mint Seymale (Mauritania) 2 nominations, among others.
Heavyweight African music producer, Don Jazzy (Nigeria) made the Africa Producer of the Year category for the song 'Eminado' alongside top contenders: Robbie Malinga&Mojela Thebe (South Africa) for 'Impilo'; Oskido and Shizzi (Nigeria) for 'Tchelete'; Mikky Me (Nigeria) 'Down' and Del'B (Nigeria) for 'Pull Over'.
Giving details into the criteria by which the nominees list emerged, MatlouTsotetsi explained that the jury panel adhered strictly to the entry submission requirements while being guided by AFRIMA's core values of FACE IT -Fairness, Authenticity, Creativity, Excellence, Integrity and Transparency.
"The adjudication panel of jurors consisting of experienced names in the continental and global music industry were in Lagos in July to evaluate the submitted works.
The entries which made the laid down criteria and qualified on merit were shortlisted based on their scores and this was sent to our Kenya-based auditors who then tabulated these scores. The result is what we are presenting today", Ms.Tsotetsi stated.
While 30 of the 33 award categories will be open for voting by the public and AFRIMA Academy of Voters, Mike Dada revealed that recipients of the AFRIMA Legend Award and the Africa Entertainment/Music Journalist Award will be decided by the International Committee of AFRIMA and announced at the main awards ceremony on Sunday, November 9, 2014.
Mike Dada said further that the AFRIMA voting online platform will open on Tuesday, September 30 for the five-week voting process, while encouraging the public, fans and followers of African music to visit the AFRIMA website, www.afrima.org , to view the nominees in the 30 categories of the award and vote for their favourite artiste (s).
For the 2014 edition, the award project opened entries on May 15 and closed the submission of entries on July 21 in the process receiving a staggering total of 2,025 works for assessment submitted by African music industry artistes, professionals and journalists.

AFRIMA 2015

ALL Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, will hold Sunday, November 9 in Lagos.
AFRIMA, Thursday, announced that two campaigning organizations, Africa 2.0 and ONE Org, both working to end poverty and corruption in Africa and develop positive networks of forward-thinking people, were partnering for the event.
Speaking about the partnership, ONE Africa Executive Director Dr. Sipho Moyo said "throughout history, we have seen how powerful a force music can be in galvanizing people around an issue. ONE worked closely this year with a number of the AFRIMA nominees to record a song about the importance of agriculture to Africa's future.
"Nineteen African musicians using their voices to inspire more than two million Africans to take real action is just one of many reasons we should be celebrating African music."
In the same vein, Chairman and Founder of Africa 2.0 Foundation, Mamadou Toure, noted that Africa 2.0 was proud to partner with AFRIMA, saying, "Africa 2.0 and AFRIMA are emblematic of the new African continent, which is to re-brand the face of Africa.
"Africa is at a tipping point. The momentum gained, when effectively utilized, will create a virtuous cycle of growth and enlightenment for all of Africa." This partnership signifies part of our vision in creating a Global movement that celebrates and endorses the best Africa has to offer."

PETER OKOYE "P-SQUARE" SIGNS FIRST LONE ENDORSEMENT DEAL

 Pop singing group, P'Square, Peter Okoye, has just signed an endorsement deal as the new face of Olympic Milk and his advert campaigns will be officially unveiled soon.
Congrats to Peter Okoye, but we hope it will not have any adverse effect on the brand of the group, as it is Peter's first time to solely endorse a product.
This is coming barely few months after the singing duo had a serious issue that nearly led to their breakup if it had not been amicably resolved.

NOLLYWOOD ACTOR MONALISA CHINDA KICKS OFF HER TV TALK SHOW

Barely seven months after she rested her self-named Magazine, Nollywood actress Monalisa Chinda has kicked off a TV talk show entitled 'You & I with Monalisa' According to a statement by the actor and made available to Daily Independent, the talk-show, "is designed to address pressing and trending social issues in the most refreshing perspectives ever seen."
"You & I" remains a most cherished gift from God and one of my greatest contributions to this world. Highly captivating, entertaining and enriching, this suspense-filled talk show is easily the solution to most of our societal challenges," the producer of Kiss and Tell said in the statement.
The statement further noted that the actress is single-handedly financing the project and she has spent N90million on producing the talk-show.

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