The
African Union Commission, AUC, during the week officially unveiled
the 2019 All Africa Music Awards, tagged; 6thAFRIMA,
calendar of events at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia.
In
a statement by the Acting Director, Social Affairs Department,
African Union Commission, Mr. Machacha Shepande, the first activity
on the continental awards event calendar is submission of entries,
which opened globally to African music professionals either living on
the continent or in the diaspora from Wednesday, May 15 and closes on
Friday, August 2, 2019.
Other
activities on the event calendar are the 13-man jury adjudication
process and nominees selection from August 6 to August 12. A 'World
media announcement of 6th AFRIMA Nominees'
List' will take place on August 13, to publicly unveil African
artistes and/or works who have been nominated.
According
to the statement, the awards ceremony, a four-day fiesta of music,
glamour and entertainment holds from November 6 to November 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.
The
live awards show is broadcast to over eighty countries around the
world. The 2018 edition of AFRIMA awards ceremony was hosted by the
Republic of Ghana, through the partnership of the Ministry of
Tourism, Arts and Culture.
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