Asa, 2Face, PSquare, DBanj, Others Nominated For MAMA 2015 Evolution Award

Asa

Ten of Africa’s most influential and iconic contemporary musicians have been nominated for the “Evolution” award, to be presented at the MTV Africa Music Awards, MAMA 2015.

Nominated in the category are Nigeria’s 2Face Idibia, Asa, D’Banj and P-Square. South Africa top acts Black Coffee and HHP are also in the list. Others are Anselmo Ralph (Angola),  Chameleone (Uganda), Fally Ipupa (DRC) and Samini (Ghana).

D'Banj

2Face

PSquare

The winner of the Evolution award will be decided jointly by MTV Base and music fans voting online, and via Twitter and Instagram.

Tim Horwood, Channel Director, MTV Base, said ‘The MAMA Evolution Award’ is to honour established artistes who have made an indelible mark on African and global music culture, taken African music to new territories around the world, pushed the boundaries of creativity, and shaped the soundscape of contemporary Africa.

Celebrating the evolution of African musicians by recognising contemporary artistes and trailblazers across a range of music and lifestyle categories, the MAMA 2015 will broadcast live across Africa on MTV Base (DStv channel 322), MTV (DStv channel 130) and BET (DStv channel 129) on Saturday 18 July at 9:00PM.

The show will also be transmitted worldwide on partner stations and content platforms including BET International from 18 July.

In addition, a special MAMA-themed edition of MTV’s acclaimed World Stage franchise will air globally on MTV channels around the world on 27 August.

Tinubu: A Cut Above The Rest By Mohammed Adamu

Tinubu

 

 

WHEN I wrote the piece: ‘Tribute to Tinubu: A Parody of Shakespeare’ a few friends and colleagues said I was un-characteristically ‘patronizing.’ Tinubu deserved that tribute which I paid to him; I still think him worthy of all the sentiments contained therein and I still feel proud that I wrote that piece.

Tinubu has fathered a peaceful political revolution in Nigeria which has not only moved our democracy beyond a notch by its shattering of the myth of the invincibility of incumbency, but it has saved the nation from the malignance of a ruinous era of political impunity which was bent on balkanizing our country.

And let me say that if Tinubu, afterwards should, for any reason lend the instrumentation of his time, his prowess and his resources in the promotion of any contrary ideal odious or antithetical to the noble one of growing our democracy and developing our nation, I should also, with a measure of antipathy equal to the enthusiasm with which I had praised him, deploy the venom of my pen to harangue and to dis-approbate him.

But come to think of it, if you ask me whether I think Tinubu is ‘evil’ – politically, I should answer as much with the affirmative ‘yes’ as with the negative ‘no’.

For as ‘beauty is in the eyes of the beholder’, logically speaking I think, so should ‘ugliness’ be also ‘in the eyes of the beholder.’ And so to a bitter PDP whose defeat the Asiwaju’s deft, adept and adroit politics had caused, Tinubu is most definitely ‘evil’; and thus in the subjective eyes of members of PDP Tinubu is uglier than the mythical Gorgon.

But to the APC whose political fortunes Tinubu’s (even if) neo-Machiavellic master-tactic has now raised from ‘nothing’ to ‘everything,’ the Jagaban is most definitely no ‘evil’ but ‘good.’ And thus in the objective eyes of sincere members of APC Tinubu should be the personification of beauty itself – politically that is.

Presently in the treacherous hustle and jostle for political positions, this is not so with the hawks and vultures in the APC who now masquerade as altruistic progressive change-agents of the Buhari government.

To these neo-conservative opportunists, all of a sudden ‘Asiwaju’ ‘The Leader’ is now simply Tinubu ‘The meddlesome interloper’! He is as they now claim ‘unnecessarily interfering with our democratic processes’ and must thus be cut to size.

And on this you cannot but have a sense of the poignantly disgusting and the de ja vu: especially if you recall what the then Rhodesia’s oppressive head Colonist Ian Smith said to the anti-colonial world of the 70s about Zimbabweans: “These blacks are spoiling my democracy!” ‘my democracy indeed!’

Or maybe if you have some appreciable knowledge of the UPN’s Second Republic politics when the then ‘Adedibu’ of that era’s Ibadan politics, Adelabu Adegoke, after a resounding UPN victory achieved through the instrumentation of Adelabu’s political enfant terrible, was told plainly by Awo that since he had no western education, he could not be a Commissioner!

Though academics is not the basis of this comparison, Adelabu’s reply aptly typifies, today, the mentality of those who have contributed next to nothing to the birth and ascendancy of APC, but whose hubris is now questioning the leadership of the man who almost singlehandedly formed, midwifed and nurtured it to power.  Adelabu was said to have asked rhetorically in Yoruba: “adiye da lori iresi, sugbon ko da n kpalo?” meaning: ‘so cooked chicken is good sitting atop a bowl of rice, but a live one is not good to grace the hallow of the parlour?’    

They said that the Asiwaju wants to install surrogate leaders for the legislature so he can remote-control them. And I say: ‘assuming, without conceding, that this is true, to what end, if we may ask, would Tinubu want to remote-control the NASS?’ Is it to prevent it from passing good progressive bills that will give effect to the promise of ‘change’ by Buhari? Or is it to egg the NASS on to anti-Buhari tantrums so that the General’s government cannot effectively function? I really don’t get it!

And I even wonder more: did they not invest Tinubu with all the sobriquets and appellations of a ‘Leader’? Did they not say that he was the courageous ‘Jagaban’; the one who led from the front? And did Tinubu not lead them from the front? Selflessly giving his time, his energy and his resources? Did he not put his life on the line of a hysterically dangerous incumbency desperately angling to keep power by hook or crook? Did they not say that Tinubu’s was a goal-oriented and decisively go-getting ‘Leadership’?

Did we not see the series of political mutations afterwards initiated and set in motion from the pre-natal stages, the singular efforts of one man to corral several ideological eggs into one political embryo, so as to give life to a new all-embracing political party around which both progressives and even repentant fascists could congregate to make practicable what was thought well-nigh impossible, namely enacting the parting of the political Red Sea to say to the behemoth PDP ‘let my people go!’

We thought that we saw Tinubu walk the miles from the North West to the North East; from North Central to the South East and from the South West to the South-South to build strong bridges of geo-ethnic and geo-political consensus; planning and strategizing to form alliances, to create leagues of political amity and to search out for men and women of weight and of mettle; political and non-political actors with diverse gifts and varying competences, to man the many points of the opposition’s political rudder.

These efforts were rewarded with successes in the creation of the first ever successful merger, the formation of the first ever peoples party, the conduct of one of the most transparent party primaries, the emergence of the most popular presidential candidate, the running of the most competitive presidential campaigns, and the first ever defeat of incumbency by an opposition party in one of the most transparent presidential elections.

But now that the political dinner table is set, surrounded, unfortunately, by opportunistic political vultures and hyenas, they are telling us that although Tinubu is an excellent political cook, he is not as good in the culinary art of dishing. That the Party Leader must stay away from the Party’s First Political Supper! In fact like Caesar, they accused the Asiwaju of ambition. The same Tinubu who had publicly announced that Buhari had offered him a chance to be on the Presidential ticket – an offer which he said he politely declined.  

Tinubu does not deserve this kind of treatment. The Asiwaju as the Party Leader and the Party are the veritable taproots of Mr. President. If they who care about Mr. President’s success are left at the mercy of the Party’s vultures and hyenas who only care about the spoils of politics, sooner or later the shrub of the Presidency and its blooming foliage will feel the wilt. It is both morally and politically expedient that Buhari steps in to restore rank discipline and to assure the Asiwaju and the Party hierarchy that he has ‘got their back’; just like they, through thick and thin, had always had Mr. President’s back.

'Like Good Wine, Buhari Gets Better With Age' -Femi Adesina

PMB Surrounded by Nigerians in South Africa

On Monday evening, President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with the Nigerian community at the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Speaking extempore, because according to him, he wanted to "speak from the heart," the President urged them to be good ambassadors of Nigeria, a country he went to the warfront to keep together.
Still extolling the virtues of our country, Nigeria, the President, who had served as a military governor of the then North-Eastern State at 33 years old, declared:"I wish I became Head of State when I was a governor. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do." 
In a statement by Mr Femi Adesina, the President's Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, the above comments have been reported by some newspapers to mean that the President was saying he was too old to cope with the demands of his office. Far from it. As the saying goes, "old wines are tasty" and the President Buhari we have today is a man, like old wine, that has got tastier. At 72, yes, he can't be called a youth, but he has in quantum the wisdom, the patience, temperance and forbearance that age brings. And all these virtues he has brought to the Presidency, to make a difference in our national life.


He had assured the Nigerian community in South Africa that his Administration would make positive impact on the country. And that he would do. 
Insecurity as symbolized by insurgency will be brought to an end, corruption will be fought to a standstill, employment will be created for the teeming army of unemployed, the economy will be revived, and the quality of life of Nigerians will take an upward swing again. These would not come by a sudden flight, but they would happen in the life of this Administration.
At 72, the Buhari persona has not changed. He remains the simple, honest, incorruptible patriot he has always been. And because Nigerians earnestly desired change, that was why they voted for him overwhelmingly at the general elections in March, this year. All the virtues and values of the Buhari persona would be deployed into governance in the weeks and months ahead.

The Nigerian community in South Africa was enthralled as President Buhari spoke with them on Monday. 
In fact, leaving the venue was an effort, as they swarmed round the President, who shook hands with as many of them as he could. They took his message well. That is the essence of good wine. It gets better with age. And it is a message for all Nigerians, both at home and in the Diaspora.

'Blow Job' Turned Awry As Lady Bites Off Rapist’s Penis

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The result of evil. These pictures were taken from the Akomor P. Isaiah’s blog. A man reportedly took his girlfriend to his friend’s house in Lagos.

A few hours later, the lady ran out screaming for help, saying she had been raped. Few minutes later, the man, with blood all over his body, also ran out crying for help.

The girl, it was learnt, had blood on her clothes and she was given a cloth to cover herself.

When the man came out screaming, neighbours were shocked and that was when they realised that the girl bit off the man’s penis and this was done with her teeth.

•Gory photos of the incident in Lagos

It was learnt that the man was rushed to the hospital but when they got to the hospital they realised that the upper part of the penis was not there so they rushed back to the house to look for it. Luckily, they found it and took it to the hospital.

When the doctor examined it, he realised that it was dead but still went ahead to stitch it.

The man is still in the hospital.

Culled from P.M.NEWS

Seun Kuti Drops Higher Consciousness Remix

Seun Kuti, the reigning prince of Afrobeat has released the remix EP of the song Higher Consciousness.

The new project, released digitally early this week by Knitting Factory Records, sees Seun and the Egypt 80 Band share a stream and download of internationally acclaimed DJ  and producer Simbad’s dub remix of the title track on SoundCloud.

The EP also includes stellar work from Grammy award-winning album producer Robert Glasper, fellow Grammy award-winning producer and composer Qmillion and cosmic dance duo In Flagranti.

Seun and the Egypt 80 band will also be performing in several cities across the U.S. and Europe this summer, including festival stops at Electric Forest and Milwaukee’s Summerfest.

He has shared a brand new live video, filmed at last year’s Primavera festival, where fans can get a good look at the incredible, unsurpassed live show from him and the extraordinary Egypt 80 Band he inherited when his father, Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, died in 1997.

Seun’s newest record, A Long Way to the Beginning, was co-produced by Grammy winner Robert Glasper and features appearances from M-1 of Dead Prez, Blitz The Ambassador and Nneka.

Waje Shares A Tale Of An African Soul

Star songstress and ONE ambassador on Sunday, 7 June treated select friends, fans and media execs to a superlative evening at Bogobiri House in Ikoyi Lagos.

The intimate show, which was presented by Trace Urban with support from Remy Martins, saw the soulful singer taking fans through her life story in a song.

Waje, in a sexy Ankara print and backed by an 8-piece band consisting of two guitarists, keyboardist, drummer and two female back-up singers, treated the audience to sessions of music interwoven with story bytes from her days as a student in Enugu through her performance with Wyclef Jean and her current status as one of Africa’s leading female acts.

Her breath taking performances included her very first single Somewhere, her breakout single For A Minute, her sleeper hit I Wish, and her chart topping offerings Onye and Coco Baby amongst others.

“I am very grateful to all who came. I have been very fortunate to enjoy the love of my fans and the media who have held it down for me from the first time I climbed on stage,” she said as the night wound down.

The atmosphere at the three-hour gig, which kicked off with cocktails on the red carpet at a venue like Bogobiri, whose ambience reflects Africa’s artistic heritage, helped deliver eclectic musical charm that Waje intended.

P.M.NEWS Entertainment Café learnt that the success of the inaugural ‘Waje Live: The Tale of An African Soul’ will see the energetic songstress, Waje tour the country and cities in Africa in the following weeks.

I’m Into Acting Not For Fame — Moyo Lawal

Nollywood actress Moyo Lawal has said that her reason for being in the movie industry is not because of fame but for her deep love for the art.

In a chat recently, the actress said she chose to live a low profile life while she quietly makes impact in her chosen career than being seen everywhere without good content to point at.

“I keep low profile, simply because I wanted to. I’m not doing acting because of the fame, but doing acting as career and as profession; just because I enjoy it and I can’t do without it,” she said

With a career spanning over a decade, Moyo, a graduate of Creative Arts from the University Lagos, has starred in scores of movies and series including Tinsel, Edge of Paradise, Binta & Friends, Superstory and Eldorado.

She paid a visit to Modupe Cole School For Down Syndrome Children on Children’s Day, 27 May where she donated items to the kids.

She was accompanied by the Founder of Act Of Charity Foundation, Tina Oruthe.

The event was supported by Pepsi who made available goody bags and gift items for the kids.

EbonyLife TV To Host Youth

EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first Global Black Entertainment and Lifestyle network, is set to host 100 young leaders to an exclusive meeting with Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The invite-only event will be held on Saturday, 20 June at the Wheatbaker Hotel, Ikoyi, Lagos.EbonyLife TV, Africa’s first Global Black Entertainment and Lifestyle network, is set to host 100 young leaders to an exclusive meeting with Professor Attahiru Jega, chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“No one can deny the impact Professor Jega had on our electoral process during his tenure at INEC,” said Mo Abudu, Founder/CEO of Ebonylife TV.

She added; “We know it is important for young Nigerians to have an insight into those things that transpired during tenure at INEC resulting in the momentous change we now see—and how they will shape the next few years of Nigeria’s future.”

Coming after Nigeria’s most successful electoral seasons to date, the participants will be able to meet and converse with Jega about his experiences during his tenure, the most recent elections held, and on many more issues.

It will be moderated by Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, a co-host of the highly rated The Spot on EbonyLife and host of Sunday afternoon show, Rubbin’ Minds.

DJ Cuppy To Release House Of Cuppy2

Following the successful release of the first edition for her House of Cuppy CD last year, DJ and Producer Cuppy is back at it again.

The turntable queen will be joining forces again with some of the top African artists on her new compilation titled ‘House of Cuppy II’ which is set to be released on Monday 22 June.

DJ Cuppy, daughter of billionaire mogul, Femi Otedola, has had an excellent year and she continues to make waves across the global entertainment industry.

She recently performed at the inauguration ball of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Wole Soyinka’s Open Letter On Sexual Offences Bill

Dear Friends and Comrades,

Regretfully, I am unable to be with you tomorrow morning. However, I extend a warm embrace to you in your resolve to keep within Nigeria’s short memory the events that have been central to the attainment of our democracy – warts and all – enjoyed today by you and me. June 12 remains the true Democracy Day despite the unprincipled efforts of some prime beneficiaries of that struggle to expunge it from a people’s chronicle.

If I had been able to join you, I would most certainly have asked you for help. It has to do with the nation’s latest alleged legislative stance against sexual abuse – molestation, rape, paedophilia etc etc. I am only a layman, not a “learned brother”, so any help from the learned is earnestly solicited. The question on my mind is this: is that legislative reinforcement not merely a case of rubbing vaseline on leprosy?

Professor Wole Soyinka

In this supposedly progressive bill, sponsored by the respected Senator Chris Anyanwu. I could not help but notice a reiteration – as if to ensure that there is no ambiguity – of the word “child”,  near superfluously. Well, we understand “child” as defined in most dictionaries.  There is however also child as defined by the Nigerian legislature. This  definition is contained in a prior Bill, sponsored, no less, by a notorious serial paedophile  and cross-border sex trafficker, yet lawmaker – one Ahmed Yerima.

Does Yerima’s Bill, gleefully assented to by his peers, not simply vitiate this latter, supposedly humane concern for the protection of the child? Again, I confess to being only a ‘bloody layman’ in such matters. However, reading both bills, it strikes me that all the new bill does is empower the clique of paedophiles. All you need do is “marry” even a six-year old under any local laws, and do whatever you want with her. Through marriage, she is already an “adult”. Her “defiler” is now fully protected by this law. She is not. The current Bill is the ancient story of locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.  End of story? Yerimah and his fellow perverts are having the last laugh.

Senator Chris Anyanwu

This issue of child protection looms large all over the world – including bills passed or under debate. It is one that defines us in our own estimation and in global view as worthy to be counted among humanity, or as the basest kind of living species that exist solely for their sensual gratification, even at the cost of the emotional and physiological well-being of the weak and vulnerable of society. Our lawmakers have betrayed our children.

This latest addition of insult to social injury was tucked within a last-minute avalanche of bills that were passed at lightning speed during the tail-end of the last legislative assemblage –  47 bills in  under 3 hours – surely one for the Guinness Book of Records. An accident? Or by design? This bill, subjected to wrong arguments, merely consolidates the reduction of female minors to sex objects.  As long as you can afford a bag of rice or – as in the case of cross-border tastes such as Ahmed Yerima’s – ten thousand dollars, you are free to rape a child to death.  This, surely cannot pretend to represent the will of a people who care. Once you re-define female adulthood as marital status, all subsequent protection bills for the girl-child are worthless, cynical.

Neither culture nor religion is at issue here. It is, quite starkly, an issue of science, the science of the human body, one that demonstrably instructs us when the female human body is still at risk from conjugal rites. We should therefore call upon the Medical Association to take the lead on this, a human issue that affects all men and women of conscience. A nation should not be founded on the sexual exploitation of the fragile, and innocent. The debate must remain open.

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Buhari – and here I make my first imposition on his presidency – should never place his assent on such a nefarious distraction. Its implications doom the victim to afflictions that churn the stomach even to think of the human toll. Perhaps those legislators think that vaginal fistula is something thought up arm-chair critics with nothing better to occupy their minds. No matter, let those who profess a genuine concern declare their stand on this. On my part, I find unacceptable any effort to build a nation on  perversions that merely minister to man’s sexual appetites. This is a sordid appeasement of a minority who actually require psychiatric help.  President Buhari should not give his assent to the Bill without amendments that address the earlier Yerima gift to the nation. It’s a trap!

Let us learn from the heroes of June 12.  Few people have done more for the cause of liberation than the Hero of this day.  M.K.O.Abiola was an open polygamist. None of his wives was ever found to be below the only age of consent that is now needlessly under contention  – the scientific. We cannot substitute science and observation for any spurious alibis that sacrifice the child to private lust!

The debate must remain open until resolved in favour of the child.

–Wole Soyinka

Davido, Wizkid, Yemi Alade, Others Lead MTV MAMA 2015 Nominations

At a star-studded reception at Harem, Johannesburg, South Africa attended by MAMA 2015 nominees Seyi Shay, Black Motion, Bucie, Cassper Nyovest and Diamond Platnumz and a host of artistes, celebrities and media, Nigerian artistes dominate in 11 categories as VIMN Africa and MTV Base on Thursday revealed the nominations for the MTV Africa Music Awards.

Celebrating the extraordinary evolution of African achievement, this year’s MAMA recognises contemporary artistes and trailblazers in a range of music and lifestyle categories including Song of the Year, Video of the Year, Best Collaboration and Personality of the Year.

Speaking at the event, Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, VIMN Africa, commented, “As Viacom International Media Networks celebrates its first 10 years in Africa, we are thrilled to pay tribute to the dynamism, creativity and passion of all the MAMA 2015 nominees. Applauding music and achievement all over the continent, the MAMA recognises the contribution of both enduring icons on the African music scene, and new and emerging talents of the future.”

Competing in the prestigious Best Male act category are AKA (South Africa), Davido (Nigeria), Diamond (Tanzania) and Wizkid (Nigeria),Sarkodie (Ghana), while female artistes making their mark in the Best Female category include Bucie (SA), Busiswa (SA), Seyi Shay (Nigeria), Vanessa Mdee(Tanzania) and Yemi Alade (Nigeria).

The enduring popularity of Hip Hop on the continent is captured in the hotly contested Best Hip Hop category, where Cassper Nyovest (South Africa) is battling it out with K.O. (South Africa),Olamide (Nigeria), Phyno (Nigeria) and Youssoupha (DRC).

Recognising the contribution of new talent on the continent, Best New Act: Transformed Today by Absolut gave nods to nominees from around the continent, including Cassper Nyovest (South Africa), Anna Joyce (Angola), Duncan (South Africa), Patoranking (Nigeria) and Stonebwoy (Ghana).

Desmond Golding, Head of Department of Economic Development, Tourism, and Environmental Affairs, KwaZulu-Natal Province, commented, "These nominations mark a significant milestone to the MAMA, which KwaZulu-Natal sees as the linchpin to deepening tourism, investment and talent.”

“Congratulations to all the 2015 MAMA nominees, particularly the nominees of Best New Act Transformed by Absolut," said Sola Oke, Marketing Director, Pernod Ricard Nigeria. “We look forward to transforming the Best New Act nominees’ MAMA nomination journey by garnering support for them through our supporter video shout-outs and live in-market performances, and via our “Africa is Absolut” campaign. The campaign celebrates Africa’s unique creativity, recognising artists who stand by their style, who are creators, innovators and originators. A campaign that encourages artistes to Be Absolut.”

Phillip Sithole Head of Durban Tourism proudly stated, “The MAMA is a true reflection of the rapid growth and music potential of the African continent. The City is proud that the event will be a catalyst to showcase the talent in the local music industry and create opportunities for our young and aspiring artists to be competitive globally. We wish the nominees in all the categories the best of luck and may they be proud of reaching this achievement for their continent.”

A total of 70 nominees were revealed at the event, across 13 different categories. Nominees for additional categories, including the MTV Base Leadership Award and Best International Act, will be revealed at a later date.

You can start voting for your favourite artistes live now at mama.mtv.com

See full list  below:

MAMA 2015 NOMINEES IN FULL:

Best Male

AKA (South Africa)

Davido (Nigeria)

Diamond (Tanzania)

Sarkodie (Ghana)

Wizkid (Nigeria)

Best Female

Bucie (South Africa)

Busiswa (South Africa)

Seyi Shay (Nigeria)

Vanessa Mdee (Tanzania)

Yemi Alade (Nigeria)

Best Group

B4 (Angola)

Beatenberg (South Africa)

Black Motion (South Africa)

P-Square (Nigeria)

Sauti Sol (Kenya)

Best New Act Transformed by Absolut

Anna Joyce (Angola)

Cassper Nyovest (South Africa)

Duncan (South Africa)

Patoranking (Nigeria)

Stonebwoy (Ghana)

Best Hip Hop

Cassper Nyovest (South Africa)

K.O. (South Africa)

Phyno (Nigeria)

Olamide (Nigeria)

Youssoupha (DRC)

Best Collaboration

AKA, Burna Boy, Da LES & JR: “All Eyes On Me” (SA/Nigeria)

Davido featuring Uhuru & DJ Buckz: “The Sound” (Nigeria/SA)

Diamond & Iyanya: “Bum Bum” (Kenya/Nigeria)

Toofan & DJ Arafat: “Apero Remix” (Togo/Ivory Coast)

Stanley Enow & Sarkodie: “Njama Njama Cow Remix” (Cameroon/Ghana)

Song of the Year

Cassper Nyovest: “Doc Shebeleza” (South Africa)

Euphonik featuring Mpumi: “Busa” (South Africa)

DJ Fisherman & NaakMusiQ featuring DJ Tira, Danger & Dream Team: “Call Out” (South Africa)

K.O featuring Kid X: “Caracara” (South Africa)

Lil Kesh Featuring Olamide & Davido: “Shoki Remix” (Nigeria)

Mavins: “Dorobucci” (Nigeria)

Sauti Sol: “Sura Yako” (Kenya)

Toofan: “Gweta” (Togo)

Wizkid: “Show You The Money” (Nigeria)

Yemi Alade: “Johnny” (Nigeria)

Best Live

Big Nuz (South Africa)

Diamond (Tanzania)

Flavour (Nigeria)

Mi Casa (South Africa)

Toofan (Togo)

Video of the Year

“Crazy” - Seyi Shay Featuring Wizkid; Director: Meji Alabi

“Doors” - Prime Circle; Director: Ryan Kruger

“Love You Everyday” - Bebe Cool; Director: Clarence Peters

“Nafukwa” - Riky Rick; Director: Adriaan Louw

“The Sound” - Davido Featuring Uhuru & DJ Buckz; Director: Sesan

Best Pop & Alternative

Fuse ODG (Ghana)

Jeremy Loops (South Africa)

Jimmy Nevis (South Africa)

Nneka (Nigeria)

Prime Circle (South Africa)

Best Francophone

DJ Arafat (Ivory Coast)

Jovi (Cameroon)

Laurette Le Pearle (DRC)

Tour 2 Garde (Ivory Coast)

Toofan (Togo)

Best Lusophone

Ary (Angola)

B4 (Angola)

Nelson Freitas (Cape Verde)

NGA (Angola)

Yuri Da Cunha (Angola)

Personality of the Year

Basketmouth (Nigeria)

Bonang Matheba (South Africa)

OC Ukeje (Nigeria)

Trevor Noah (South Africa)

Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast)