Public Voting Begins Sunday September 25

The voting portal for the 2022 version of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) (https://www.AFRIMA.org) will likely be opened on Sunday, September 25, at 21:00 (CAT),  to the general public, globally, to resolve the winners of every of the 39 award classes.

The Worldwide Committee of the All Africa Music Award (AFRIMA), along with the African Union Fee (AUC), made this announcement, on Friday, encouraging African music lovers to vote intensively utilizing the voting portal dwell at www.AFRIMA.org, earlier than the portal closes on December 10, 2022, which is the eve of the awards.

Extra info on the voting course of, which might even be audited by the Worldwide auditing agency, PriceWaterHouseCoopers (PWC), may also be discovered on the web site, in addition to AFRIMA’s social media (Instagram/TikTok – @Afrima.official; Fb – Afrimawards; Twitter – @afrimaofficial).

Prefer it did on the AFRIMA 2021 version, the PWC, which has audited different main world awards together with the Oscars, will audit the voting portal, collate the votes and current them on the awards.

In keeping with AFRIMA’s Government Producer/President, Mike Dada, “AFRIMA’S core values of FACE IT – Equity, Authenticity, Creativity, Excellence, Integrity and Transparency stay on the coronary heart of our operations. With PWC, we’re additional reinforcing these worth drivers, guaranteeing that we stay as inclusive, credible and genuine as all the time.”

Recall that the checklist of nominees had been unveiled globally, final Wednesday, revealing a  complete of 382 nominations throughout all 39 classes. The nominations, which have been greeted with constructive acclaim the world over, are the fruit of a rigorous 10-day adjudication held by AFRIMA’s 13-member jury, in July. Additionally, solely entries inside the validity interval of August 20, 2021 to August 5, 2022, had been thought of for nomination for this yr’s awards.

In keeping with AFRIMA’s Government Producer/President, Mr Mike Dada, the awards physique stays the final word recognition of African music globally, additionally serving as a muse to different award our bodies throughout the continent.

“We’re not oblivious to the truth that there are another award our bodies that duplicate our nominations yearly. As the final word recognition of African music, globally, we’re a supply of inspiration to each music gatekeepers and music lovers throughout all the business. AFRIMA continues to blaze the path in celebrating African expertise and creating our inventive ecosystem, and this yr’s version is a step additional in that course,” he mentioned.

On her half, the African Union Fee’s Head of Tradition, Mrs Angela Martins inspired music lovers to vote decisively and objectively.

She mentioned, “We’ve got executed our half. It’s left to you the followers to now resolve your winners. Do not forget that these classes are extremely aggressive and are primarily based on advantage. Let your votes assist one of the best individual(s) emerge as champion.”

The 2022 All Africa Music Awards will now be held from the eighth to eleventh December, 2022. A particular announcement will likely be made on the host nation and site for the awards, on thirtieth September, 2022.

The AFRIMA awards ceremony will function a 4-day fiesta of music, glitz, and glamour geared toward celebrating Africa, recognising abilities and increasing the financial frontiers of the tradition and  inventive business on the continent. The occasion is scheduled to begin with the welcome soiree, adopted by the AFRIMA Music Village, the host metropolis tour, Africa Music Enterprise Summit, and the unique nominees’ occasion and concluded with the dwell awards ceremony broadcast to over 84 nations all over the world.

African music lovers can participate within the occasions on social media, dwell stream on the AFRIMA web site at www.afrima.org and go to the social media platforms (IG/TikTok – @afrima.official; Fb – Afrimawards; Twitter – @afrimaofficial; LinkedIn – AFRIMA) ), and so they can watch the occasion protection by tuning in to their native and cable TV suppliers.

In partnership with the African Union Fee, AFRIMA is a youth-focused music platform that acknowledges and rewards the work and abilities of African artistes throughout generations.

AFRIMA primarily stimulates conversations amongst Africans, and likewise the remainder of the world, particularly on the potential of the inventive arts for fostering actual human enterprise, in addition to contributing considerably to social cohesion, in addition to sustainable improvement in Africa. The Programme of occasions is according to the AU Agenda 2063 which outlines Aspiration 05 as the event of the humanities and tradition sector together with its cultural and artistic industries, to spice up the event of the African economic system.