Organisers of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) have announced that the award’s 6th edition, scheduled to hold between 20 to 23rd of November, will be hosted by Lagos State.
The 5th edition of the awards was hosted in Accra, Ghana, making it the only city to host the pan-African showbiz spectacle after Lagos had hosted the previous four editions.
According to a statement issued by the organisers, this year’s edition tagged “Feel Africa” is aimed at promoting AFRIMA’S mission of cultural uniqueness which include unity, peaceful co-existence and economic growth in the continent.
The statement read; “The theme takes inspiration from AFRIMA’s mission to change negative perspectives of Africa by promoting the cultural uniqueness of Africa as a means to counter issues hindering the unity, peaceful co-existence and economic growth of the continent.
“The support of the Government of Lagos State as AFRIMA Official Host City in 2016 and 2017 also fostered the smooth execution of the various AFRIMA events and facilitated the seamless engagement of corporate sponsorship/partnership at various facets of event planning and execution.”
Also speaking, the associate producer of AFRIMA, Adenrele Niyi, said “The 6th AFRIMA finds home in Nigeria for the 2019 awards ceremony and we could not be more excited for this edition.
“We are coming out of a super successful 2018 edition in Ghana -the 5th AFRIMA was a milestone year for us. These are interesting times for African music as more of our creatives are defying the imaginary limitations of cultural diversity to collaborate and create magical music.
“Many of these works would be showcased at the awards events such as the AFRIMA Music Village concert and the main awards ceremony.”
By Tobi Olusola