The ceremony for the maiden edition of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) will now hold on December 27 at the Grand Ballroom of Oriental Hotel, Lagos.
Preceding the ceremony will be the African Music Summit themed ‘Reviving the Business of Music in Africa’ slated for the morning of same day, at the same venue. The summit is a platform for African and global music industry stakeholders to network and deliberate on how the music industry can be nurtured and structured to be a major contributor to national and continental economies, said the organisers.
In the course of the invitation-only award ceremony night, more than 30 of AFRIMA’s 23.9-carat gold-plated trophies will be received by music acts or groups in their respective categories. The trophy recipients will also include an AFRIMA Legend awardee and the African Entertainment/Music Journalist of the Year. To spice up the proceedings will be sizzling performances from some of Africa’s top performing artistes and bands.
“There is so much excitement in store for guests who attend both the Africa Music Summit and AFRIMA main award ceremony. The summit provides ample opportunity for robust and strategic deliberations on developing the African music industry to compete with the better developed industries around the globe,” stresses Delani Makhalima, AFRIMA Juror from Zimbabwe.
Although committed to delivering a world-class 2014 award event, the International Committee of AFRIMA said that part of the ceremony’s programme will pay tribute to lives affected by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in some West African states and insurgency in Northern Nigeria, Somalia and part of Kenya – both disturbing trends had necessitated the rescheduling of the award ceremony.