{"id":7361,"date":"2021-09-25T17:13:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daviral.ng\/news\/?p=7361"},"modified":"2021-09-25T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:13:24","slug":"wizkid-tops-burna-boy-and-davido-in-afrima-2021-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wizkid-tops-burna-boy-and-davido-in-afrima-2021-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizkid tops Burna Boy and Davido in AFRIMA 2021 nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wizkid <\/a>tops Burna Boy<\/a> and Davido<\/a> in AFRIMA 2021 nominations; Popular singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid<\/a>, has been nominated for the Artiste of the Year in Africa category in the forthcoming Africa Music Awards.<\/p>\n

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With his hit song, \u2018Essence\u2019 featuring Tems, the afrobeats star got five other nominations which include \u2018Best Male Artiste in Western Africa,\u2019 \u2018Album of the Year, Song of the Year in Africa\u2019, \u2018Best Artiste, Duo or Group in African R n B Soul\u2019 and \u2018Best African Collaboration\u2019.<\/p>\n

\"\"Self-acclaimed African Giant, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy<\/a>, got three nominations\u2014 \u2018Best Male Artiste in West Africa, \u2018Album of the Year, and Artiste of the Year. Fem\u2019 singer, David Adeleke, aka Davido<\/a>, bagged nominations for \u2018Song of the Year\u2019, \u2018Best Artiste, Duo or Group in African Electro, \u2018Best Artiste\u2019, \u2018Duo or Group in African Pop\u2019.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the nominees list features over 400 songs by artistes from 10 regional and 28 continental categories, which cut across African creatives living on the continent and in the diaspora.<\/p>\n

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Fast-rising Nigerian singer, Omah Lay, also bagged four nominations\u2014 \u2018Artiste of the Year in Africa\u2019, \u2018Best Artiste in Western Africa\u2019, \u2018Best Artiste\u2019, \u2018Duo or Group in African Pop\u2019 and \u2018Breakout Artiste of the Year\u2019.<\/p>\n

Other nominees are Blaq Diamond (South Africa), Bella Shmurda (Nigeria), Nikita Kering (Kenya), Nata (Sierra Leone), Abir (Morocco), Olakira (Nigeria), Calema (Sao Tome & Principe), Casper Nyovest (South Africa), DJ Moh Green (Algeria), Djelykaba Bintou (Guinea), Ferre Gola (DRC Congo), Gyakie (Ghana), Kamo Mphela (South Africa), Kelly Khumalo (South Africa), Loco (Cameroon), Nasty C (South Africa), Rebo (DR Congo), Tems (Nigeria), Tiwa Savage (Nigeria), Adekunle Gold (Nigeria), Cavemen (Nigeria) and Vector (Nigeria).<\/p>\n

\"WizkidIn a statement made available to Saturday Beats, the Head of Culture, African Union Commission on the Jury, Angela Martins noted that the nominees were selected through a \u2018rigorous\u2019 selection process as Wizkid tops Burna Boy and Davido. She also added that the Legend Award Category will be announced at the ceremony, while the \u2018Best Soundtrack in a Movie\/Series\/Documentary film\u2019 category was suspended due to low-quality entries for this year\u2019s edition.<\/p>\n

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A member of the 13-man AFRIMA International Jury, Hadja Kobele, noted that a total of 8,880 songs were received for this year\u2019s edition of the awards.<\/p>\n

The awards ceremony will be held in Lagos, Nigeria, from November 19 to 21, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wizkid tops Burna Boy and Davido in AFRIMA 2021 nominations; Popular singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has been nominated for the Artiste of the Year in Africa category in the forthcoming Africa Music Awards. Top 20 Pidgin English Phrases to Use in Nigeria With his hit song, \u2018Essence\u2019 featuring Tems, the afrobeats star got five […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[264,208,207],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-burna-boy","9":"tag-davido","10":"tag-wizkid"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7361\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=7361"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviral.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=7361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}