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AMAA 2019: Sola Sobowale Wins Best Actress Award
The duo of Sola Sobowale and Adesua Etomi Wellington have won the Best Actress in Leading Role and Best Actress in Supporting Role awards at the just concluded Africa Movie Academy Awards.
AMAA which held in Lagos last Sunday was hosted by actress, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Lorenzo Menakaya and comedian, Funny bone.
Below is the full list of winners and their categories:
Michael Anyiam Osigwe Award For Best Film by an African-Born Director Living Abroad
Julius Amedume – Rattlesnakes -Winner
Best Diaspora Short Film
Bail (UK) – Winner
Best Diaspora Documentary
My Friend Fela (Brazil) -Winner
Best Diaspora Narrative Feature
Hero (Trinidad and Tobago/Canada) -Winner
Best Achievement in Production Design
.Redemption (Mozambique) -Winner
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Mercy of the Jungle (Rwanda) -Winner
Best Achievement in Make-Up
Mercy of the Jungle (Rwanda) -Winner
Best Achievement in Soundtrack
Mabata Bata (Mozambique) -Winner
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Knockout Blessing (Nigeria) -Winner
NFVCB Award For Best Nigerian Film
‘King of Boys -Winner
Best Documentary
Khartoum Offside (Sudan) -Winner
Ousmane Sembene Award For Best
Film in an African Language
Rafiki (Kenya) -Winner
Efere Ozako Award For Best Short Film
A Tune of Kora (SENEGAL) -Winner
Best Achievement in Sound
Mabata Bata (Mozambique) -Winner
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Sew the Winter to My Skin (S. Africa) -Winner
Best Achievement in Editing
Rafiki (Kenya) -Winner
Best Achievement in Screenplay
Redemption (Mozambique) -Winner
Best Animation
Choices – Nigeria -Winner
Best Young/Promising Actor
Cynthia Dankwa (Esi) Burial of Kojo -Winner
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Remilekun “Reminisce” Sarafu (Makanaki) King of Boys -Winner
Entertainment
They Booed, Threw Bottles At Me – Tems Recounts
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
Entertainment
Primeboy Pleads For Mohbad’s Burial
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
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