Nigeria To Host All Africa Music Awards …As Committee Calls For Entries

The All Africa Music
Awards, AFRIMA stakeholders conference with the theme: “Harnessing our music potentials for Africa’s development” was held on  April 15, 2014 in Victoria Island, Lagos which prepared the ground towards heralding the biggest music awards on African continent billed to hold in Nigeria in October 25, 2014.
The Producer and Regional Director,  East Africa, Mr Mike Strano during his opening presentation at the event noted that AFRIMA is a narrative of African music, culture and heritage on the global stage, it is fashioned as a medium to enhance African music industry’s bottom line and communicated harmony in Africa with the mandate of producing an international platform to celebrate our cultural heritage and values, rewarding up and coming as well as established talent and celebrating sustainable growth of the African music industry as a contribution to national and continental economics.
It was gathered that the international committee of AFRIMA has opened submission of entries for musical works across Africa for the 2014 edition. Entries open from May 15, 2014 to July 5, 2014 and the following music professionals of African origin living either on the continent or abroad are eligible to enter for the awards under the 30 categories such as: Artists, Song Writers, Video Directors, Music producers and music journalists, as well as unrecorded artistes who can upload their songs/videos in YouTubes.
Works to be submitted must be produced in the year under review, May 31, 2013 to July 4, 2014. Format of submission and eligibility is available on WWW.Africa.Org.
Qualified entries will be selected by the Academy of AFRIMA which consists of the Jury and College of voters. Revealing further information about the makeup of the academy, AFRIMA Regional Director, Central Africa, Mr Ernest Ewane, said the jury consists of 13 people who have spent reasonable amount of years in the music industry and have vast knowledge in music who do not perform or produce songs anymore and people who are well respected in the industry across Africa and Diaspora. They are professionals with impeccable understanding of music.”
While the academy consists of 527 members to vote for the categories. In this process of selecting nominees and eventual winners of the coveted award trophy, AFRIMA is keen to uphold its FACE  IT value which stands for fairness, accountability, creativity, excellence, integrity and transparency.