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| AFRIMA team |
The African Union Commission, AUC, has
formally unveiled the 2017 All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA calendar
at the World media unveiling event held, Tuesday, at The Maslow
Hotel, Sandton, South Africa.
The ceremony was attended by AU
officials, members of the International Committee of AFRIMA, past
AFRIMA winners and nominees from Southern African, media executives
in Southern Africa and other stakeholders in the
creative/entertainment industry in Africa.
During the unveiling,
President/Executive Producer, AFRIMA, Mr. Mike Dada, made known that
the first activity on the continental awards event calendar is
submission of entries which opens globally on Monday, May 8 and
submission closes on Monday, July 17, 2017.
Mr. Dada advised artistes, managers,
producers, record label owners, video directors, publicists and
entertainment/music journalists to submit their works or those of
their artistes within the stipulated timeline in order to stand a
chance of being nominated for the awards.
While delivering the African Union
opening address at the event, Head of Culture Division, African Union
Commission, Ms. Angela Martins, thanked the government of the
Republic of South Africa and the people for receiving the AUC and
AFRIMA for the calendar unveiling.
She added: “We would like to hail the
All Africa Music Awards initiative for the laudable impact it has for
its three editions (2014, 2015 and 2016). AFRIMA has been able to
mobilize millions of people and renowned artistes from the five (5)
regions of Africa’’.
Speaking further about the partnership
with the All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA and the African Union
Commission, Ms Martins said: ‘’We wish to thank AFRIMA for
allowing us to popularize this continent policy tool on its platforms
and we call upon all of you here present to assist in popularizing
these continental tools.”
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