KORA All-Africa Music Awards has announced the nominees in the 26 categories for her 2016 edition. The award ceremony taking place at the Windhoek Country Club in Namibia has partnered with SoundcityTV Africa as official broadcast media.
The award ceremony which is set to take place on March 20, 2016, and will form part of Namibia’s annual National Day celebrations will be televised live on SoundcityTV across 55 countries.
“We are excited about the partnership to take the 2016 KORA All-Africa Award to 55 countries and to our over 40 million audience via the live broadcast and digital platforms,” said Chief Executive at Consolidated Media Associates and Executive Producer at SoundcityTV Africa, Tajudeen Adepetu. “We are inspired by the incredible work of KORA team over the last 12 years and then by 2016 crop of nominees for the award. Next year’s ceremony would be nothing short of spectacular even to audience who would be tuned in from their homes via SoundcityTV.”
The Namibian government who will be playing host for the ceremony has thrown her weight fully behind the 2016 edition of the Award. In a communication recently issued by the Namibian Ministry of Environment and Tourism in conjunction with the Ministries of Education, Arts & Culture; and Information and Communication Technology, the Namibian government expressed the belief that the creative industries play a key role in contributing to the economy and in doing so, furthering the poverty alleviation agenda through tourism, the cultural arts and the creative industries which largely informed the partnership with the organisers of KORA.
The statement from the Namibian government in part read: “These programmes are designed to ensure Namibian’s participation in this landmark event, and assure that the country’s tourism, ICT and art industries benefit directly from the events being hosted in Namibia. As such, we are pleased to endorse the KORA AII-Africa Music Awards and anticipate the positive impact it will have on Namibia’s creative economy.
“It is our further belief that the KORA All-Africa Music Awards also represents a unique opportunity for public-private partnership to jointly collaborate in the delivery of a landmark event, and as such, encourage role-players in the private sector to explore partnership opportunities with the event.”
The 2016 KORA All-Africa Awards’ nomination list released on November 3, 2015 saw over a 100 of the most promising and gifted artistes nominated across the four regions of the continent.
Nigerian artistes and categories they are nominated are: Reekado Banks for Most Promising Male Artist of Africa; Yemi Alade for Most Promising Female Artist of Africa; P-Square for Legendary Award; Tiwa Savage, Flavour N’abania and Korede Bello for Best Video; Lara George for Best Female – Spiritual Music; Flavour scores a second nomination for ‘Best Male – West Africa’ alongside Davido; Tiwa Savage is also nominated for ‘Best Female – West Africa’ while Bracket are up for Best Group of Africa; The trio of BNG are nominated for Best Group – Spiritual; Mavins’ ‘Adaobi’ is nominated for Best Collaboration.
