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The 6th All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) has officially opened its
online portal, www.afrima.org [1] for submission of songs and videos
between the period of May 15 and August 2, 2019.
Following the unveiling of the calendar of events for the 6th annual All
Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA on Monday May 13 by the African Union
Commission, AUC, at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia, the entry submission process opens to African music artistes
living on the continent or abroad as well as producers, record label
owners, recording companies, video directors, DeeJays and
choreographers/dancers and unrecorded artistes.
A song or video to qualify for submission must be produced or released
within the year, August 1, 2018 to August 2, 2019. The artistic works
must be uploaded via an audio or video format, using download URL links
to YouTube or SoundCloud platforms, and must be submitted in any of the
36 AFRIMA categories, comprising of 10 Regional and 26 Continental
categories relevant to the genre or style of music on the online
submission portal. Winners in the 36 categories to take home 23.9 carat
plated AFRIMA trophy.
The Main Awards Ceremony, a four-day fiesta of music, glamour,
Afrocentricism and entertainment, holds from November 6 to 9 in the
official awards Host City. It will be preceded by Welcome Soiree, AFRIMA
Music Village, the Host City Tour, the Africa Music Business Summit and
the exclusive Nominees Party.
AFRIMA had its 5th edition in the Republic of Ghana, and in partnership
with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, and had in attendance
high profile music artiste and guest from across Africa and Diaspora. It
was a show of glamour, talents, crafts, and a display of the African
dynamism in the arts and culture industry.
In partnership with the African Union, the All Africa Music Awards is a
music property that recognises and rewards the work and talent of a
myriad of African artists from the old to the new generation of
musicians. Through its conference, AFRIMA also stimulates conversations
among Africans and between Africa and the rest of the world about the
potential of the creative arts for real humanising enterprise on the
continent, contributing significantly to social cohesion, national,
regional and continental integration as well as sustainable development
in Africa. The award show is usually broadcast to over eighty countries
around the world.
