As part of the build up events to the premium event in November, the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, held a concert to communicate the vision and ideals of AFRIMA to the vibrant youth generation in Nigeria, the host country, on Tuesday at the Indoor Sport Hall of the University of Lagos.
The show, tagged ‘Road to AFRIMA’ on campus and launching of Vote-Not-Fight-Campaign, had some AFRIMA Awards’ nominees at their best. On stage were 2face Idibia, Skales, Naeto C and Jaywon at the event and was anchored by Gbenga Adeyinka the 1st.
Others who got the audience dancing were Tony One Week, Niyola and Zeez, as well as Dammy Krane, Queen Moda, Efa, Saeon, Joel, Seriki and others.
It is surely an event that the International Committee of AFRIMA offered to fans as a tip of what to expect at the November 9 awards ceremony.
According to AFRIMA Project Director, Adenrele Niyi, “The headline act of the concert is the Nigeria’s celebrated afro-pop singer Tuface Idibia who is superbly excited to be in the music train and associated with the objectives of AFRIMA of pursuing an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa through the instrumentality of music. The Vote-not-fight campaign shares the same vision of eradicating negative reports about the continent and promoting Africa through music.”
Meanwhile, voting continues in the 32 categories of the award till November 4, just as the main award ceremony will be preceded by the AFRIMA Music Village between November 4 and 7; a four day festival of non-stop music and exhibition from African countries and performances by African artistes. It will be followed by African Music Summit on November 6 and 7, with the theme “Reviving the Business of Music in Africa”.
For more information and voting, log on to our website, www.afrima.org, like our facebook page www.facebook.com/afrima2014 and follow us on twitter and instagram @ afrimawards.
In a related development, AFRIMA recently honoured 2014 Nigeria based award nominees at Quilox Club, Victoria Island with the AFRIMA 2014 Certificate of Nomination those in attendance included African music industry personalities, artiste managers, on-air-personalities (OAPs) and music industry stakeholders.