The Award Ceremony which is set to take place on the 20th of March 2016,
and will form part of the host country - Namibia's annual National Day
celebrations would be televised live on SoundcityTV - Channel 327 on
DSTV, GOtv Channel 75 and her digital platforms across 55 countries.
SoundcityTV delivers the very best of Culture, Music, Entertainment and Lifestyle to a worldwide audience, a fitting for the KORA All-Africa Awards.
“We are excited about the partnership to take the 2016 KORA All-Africa Award to 55 countries and to our over 40 million audience via the live broadcast and digital platforms," said
Mr. Tajuddeen Adepetu, who is Chief Executive at Consolidated Media
Associates and Executive Producer at SoundcityTV Africa. "We are inspired by the incredible work of KORA
team over the last 12 years and then by 2016 crop of nominees for the
award. Next year's ceremony would be nothing short of spectacular even
to audience who would be tuned in from their homes via SoundcityTV."
The Namibian government who would be playing host for the March 20th ceremony has thrown her weight fully behind the 2016 edition of the Award. In
a communication recently issued by the Namibian Ministry of Environment
and Tourism in conjunction with the Ministries of Education, Arts &
Culture; and Information and Communication Technology, the Namibian
government expressed the belief that the creative industries play a key
role in contributing to the economy and in doing so, furthering the
poverty alleviation agenda through tourism, the cultural arts and the
creative industries which largely informed the partnership with the
Organizers of KORA.
The statement from the Namibian government in part read: 'These
programmes are designed to ensure Namibian's participation in this
landmark event, and assure that the country's tourism, ICT and art
industries benefit directly from the events being hosted in Namibia. As
such, we are pleased to endorse the KORA AII-Africa Music Awards and anticipate the positive impact it will have on Namibia's creative economy.
It is our further belief that the KORA
All-Africa Music Awards also represents a unique opportunity for
public-private partnership to jointly collaborate in the delivery of a
landmark event, and as such, encourage role-players in the private
sector to explore partnership opportunities with the event.' The full
Media Release by the Namibian Government is available on Soundcity.tv
website.
The 2016 KORA All-Africa Awards' nomination list released via @SoundcityTV twitter account and on the koraawards.com website
on the 3rd of November, 2015 saw over a 100 of the most promising and
gifted artistes nominated across the four regions of the continent.
Nigerian artistes and categories they are nominated are: Reekado
Banks for Most Promising Male Artist of Africa; Yemi Alade for Most
Promising Female Artist of Africa; P-Square for Legendary Award; Tiwa
Savage, Flavour N'abania and Korede Bello for Best Video; Lara George
for Best Female - Spiritual Music; Flavour scores a second nomination
for 'Best Male - West Africa' alongside Davido; Tiwa Savage is also
nominated for 'Best Female - West Africa' while Bracket are up for Best
Group of Africa; The trio of BNG are nominated for Best Group -
Spiritual; Mavins' 'Adaobi' is nominated for Best Collaboration.
It is also noteworthy that winners from every category would not only be going home with the coveted KORA plaques but cash prizes ranging from twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to a million dollars ($1,000,000).
The countdown begins!
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