Over 12 Cameroonians were nominated in this year’s AFRIMAs(All Africa Music Awards). Now don’t get it twisted o, this one is different from the AFRIMMAs(African Music Magazine Awards) that held in Texas a while ago. This one, the AFRIMAs held in Nigeria yesterday, Sunday the 15th of November. So among Locko, Daphne, Stanley Enow, Featurist, Mani Bella, Numerica, Charlotte Dipanda, Charles Vumumse, Jovi, Missy BK, Junior Eyango and Lab’l who were nominated from Cameroon; only Charlotte Dipanda and Stanley Enow came out victorious! Stanley Enow won an award for Best Male Artist in Central Africa and Charlotte Dipanda won three awards, for Best Artist in African contemporary, Best Female Artist Central Africa & Album of the year awards. Congrats to Stanley Enow and Charlotte Dipanda!! see the full list of winners:
ARTIST OF THE YEAR- Diamond Platnumz
SONG OF THE YEAR- Diamond Platnumz – “Nasema Nawe”, featuring Khadijo Kopa
ALBUM OF THE YEAR- Charlotte Dipanda – “Elle n’a pas vu”
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICA (RnB & Soul)- Praiz Adejo – Nigeria
BEST AFRICAN REGGAE, RAGGA & DANCEHALL- Stonebwoy – Ghana
BEST MALE ARTIST: INSPIRATIONAL CATEGORY-Darey – Nigeria
BEST FEMALE ARTIST: INSPIRATIONAL CATEGORY-Betty Akna- Equatorial Guinea
VIDEO OF THE YEAR-Wiyaala – Ghana
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICAN POP-Vanessa Mdee – Tanzania
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICAN HIP HOP-Casper Nyovest – South Africa
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICAN ELECTRO-Flavour – Nigeria
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR-Sauti Sol and Cedric Kadenyi – Kenya
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR IN AFRICA-Joseph Chameleone – Uganda
REVELATION OF THE YEAR IN AFRICA-Adekunle Gold – Nigeria
MOST PROMISING ARTIST IN AFRICA-Kiss Daniel – Nigeria
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY-Charlotte Dipanda- Cameroon
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICAN JAZZ-Kunle Ayo – Nigeria
BEST MALE ARTIST IN WESTERN AFRICA-Olamide – Nigeria
BEST FEMALE ARTIST IN WESTERN AFRICA-Yemi Alade – Nigeria
BEST ARTIST IN AFRICAN ROCK-M’vula – Kenya
BEST AFRICAN GROUP-Sauti Sol- Kenya
BEST AFRICAN COLLABORATION-AKA(South Africa) and Burna Boy(Nigeria)
BEST FEMALE ARTIST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA-Busiswa Ngoku- South Africa
BEST MALE ARTIST IN SOUTHERN AFRICA-Casper Nyovest- South Africa
BEST FEMALE ARTIST IN NORTHERN AFRICA-Manal- Morocco
BEST MALE ARTIST IN NORTHERN AFRICA-Ahmed Soultan- Morocco
BEST FEMALE ARTIST IN EASTERN AFRICA-Tsedenia Gebremarkos- Ethiopia
BEST MALE ARTIST IN EASTERN AFRICA-Diamond Platnumz- Tanzania
BEST MALE ARTIST CENTRAL AFRICA- Stanley Enow- Cameroon
BEST FEMALE ARTIST CENTRAL AFRICA- Charlotte Dipanda
PILLAR OF CULTURE IN AFRICA- Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Jagaban)
Congrats to all the winners!!
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This is an outstanding venue, with great and thoughtful staff, and a fantastic chef. The location is well situated. We has been delighted to host our annual event at this venue Houston TX for the past few years, and the space has been perfect for our group of roughly 300.