Shijal ChudasamaJanuary 16, 2023Senegal hosts an annual awards ceremony where African musicians congregate.
This past weekend, the annual All Africa Music Awards, honoring the best talent on the continent, saw the star musicians of Africa walk the red carpet.
On the outskirts of Dakar, the city of Senegal, an awards ceremony on Sunday evening brought the four-day festival to a close. Some of the most well-known musicians from Africa gave performances, including Nigeria's P-Square and Tiwa Savage, Mali's Rokia Kone, and Senegal's Youssou N'Dour and Baaba Maal.
Rapper Didi B from Ivory Coast won best song of the year for his song "Tala." He congratulated his colleagues and acknowledged the fact that this was his first award of the year as he ascended the platform in front of an animated crowd.
According to the rapper, singer, and songwriter from Abidjan, "I dedicate it to my mum and my fans."
Ivorian slang for a particular dance, "tala," has been viewed approximately 6.5 million times on YouTube in just seven months and is played in clubs all over the continent.
This was the first AFRIMA to be hosted in a French-speaking nation, and it was the eighth edition. The majority of the events have taken place in Nigeria, including the most recent one in Lagos in 2021, where Iba One, a Malian singer, took home the best album prize. Iba One was acknowledged as the greatest songwriter this year.
On Sunday, several well-known singers also received honors, including Burna Boy, the Nigerian Afrobeat musician who took home the prize for greatest act in Africa. Wizkid got the prize for greatest performer in West Africa, while Asake, another Nigerian, was named breakout artist of the year.
According to its organizers, AFRIMA strives to embrace the cultural richness and heritage of the continent while also introducing African performers to international audiences.
According to Mike Dada, the event's executive director, "this is such an exciting time in African music, and we are proud of the way these artists have been able to transcend over to numerous markets both domestically and even globally."
This year's event had more than 9,000 entries, the most since it began in 2014. In 39 categories, the winners bested more than 380 entries from five different African areas as well as the diaspora.
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