THE LOCAL & FLY

Africa does have beautiful music. The All African Music Awards AFRIMA, ceremony is to reward the African talents behind these amazing sound coming from Africa. AFRIMA Awards 2019 might be a year for the unexpected as top stars find themselves vying for the same awards. 

We will first like to take a quick look at the AFRIMA 2018 winners in some of the major categories as well as their 2019 nominees. This will also help us compare the AFRIMA winners of 2019 after the event goes down on 20 – 23 November.

Song of the Year: 2018 winner, Akwaaba by GuiltyBeatz, Mr Eazi, Patapaa & Pappy Kojo – Akwaaba – Ghana

‘Akwaaba’ was in a contest in this category with Davido’s FIA and a number of others. Many fans of FIA secretly wished for it to win as we did too. For this year, neither GultyBeatz, nor Mr Eazi Patapaa and Pappy Kojo made it to the Song of the year nominees. Here are the nominees for this category this year.

Song of the Year 2019 nominees are:

‘Banomoya‘ – Prince Kaybee (South Africa) ft. Busiswa & TNS

‘Iokote‘ – Maua Sama and Hanstone (Tanzania)

‘Fever‘ – Wizkid (Nigeria)   

‘Blow My Mind‘ – Davido & Chris Brown (Nigeria)

‘On The Low‘- Burna Boy (Nigeria)             

‘Naseny Leh‘ – Tamer Hosny (Egypt)

‘Tetema‘ – Rayvanny (Tanzania) ft. Diamond Platnumz

‘Umama‘ – Sjava (South Africa)

‘SMA‘ – Nasty C ft. Rowlene (South Africa)

Artist of the Year: 2018 winner, Davido – Nigeria

While Shekhinah and Maître Gims led the nomination pack in 2018, we had the feeling Davido’s FIA was going to leave with an award. We just didn’t know which one. For 2019 nominations, Burna Boy has made himself a material for artists of the year, so we anticipate his win in this category.

Artist of the year in Africa 2019 nominees are:

Daphne (Cameroon) – Ne Lâches Pas

Aminux (Morocco) – Bini W Binek

Tamer Hosny (Egypt) – Naseny Leh

Burna Boy (Nigeria) – Gbona

Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania) – Kanyaga

Wizkid (Nigeria) – Fever

Davido (Nigeria ) – Wonder Woman

Nasty C (South Africa) – SMA’ ft. Rowlene

Prince Kaybee (South Africa) – Banomoya’ ft. Busiswa and TNS

Best African Rapper or Lyricist: 2018 winner, Falz – Nigeria – La Fête

Kenya does it well when it comes to rap, however, the 2018 win which went Falz was well deserved. This year, with all the rap coming from artists like Nasty C and Khaligraph Jones, this category is going to be a big tussle to win in 2019.

Best African Rapper or Lyricist 2019 nominees are:

Double S (Uganda) – (ft. Skepta) in ‘Certy’

Khaligraph Jones – Kenya- ‘Superman’

Sarkodie – Ghana (ft. LJ, Tulenkey, Frequency, K. Mole, ToyBoi, Yeyo, Amerado, 2Fyngers, Obkay & CJ) in ‘Bibii’

Biura – Angola (ft. Bruno AG and Jéssica Pitbull) in ‘Fora Da Zona’

Nadia Nakai – South Africa – ‘Imma Boss’

Nasty C – South Africa – ft. (Rowlene) in ‘SMA’

Nyashinski (Kenya) Marathon Runner

Frank Casino – South Africa ft. Cassper Nyovest & Major Leage DJz) in ‘Sudden’

Producer of the Year: 2018 winner, Fresh VDM – Togo, FIA

A handful of the nominated producers merit this title this year. However, shows up on the nominations list for best producers this year, who says he is not allowed to win again?

Producer of the Year 2019 nominees are:

Prince Kaybee – South Africa

Nasty C – South Africa

Vusi Nova – South Africa

Shizzi – Nigeria

S2Kizzy – Tanzania

Mace – South Africa

Salatiel – Anita

Sarz – Nigeria

Kel P – Nigeria

TH Productions – Eygpt

Who would you want to walks away with a 23.9-carat gold-plated AFRIMA Awards 2019 trophy in each category? More predictions coming soon.

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