The 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Airtel will take the form of a stunning live music event and global television spectacular, featuring performances from contemporary African and international music giants and hosted by a major music celebrity. Artists from around the continent will battle to win a coveted MAMA trophy in one of twelve award categories including: Best Male, Best Female, Best Video, Best Group, Artist of the Year, Best Lusophone Act, Best Anglophone Act, Best Francophone Act, Song of the Year, Brand: New Act, Best International Act and MAMA Legend.

Telecommunications giant Airtel comes on board as the headline sponsor of the MTV Africa Music Awards 2010, signalling the telco’s profound commitment to African music and youth culture following its purchase of Zain Africa’s business operations earlier this year. The sponsorship was announced by Andre Beyers, Chief Marketing Officer, Airtel Africa and Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, MTV Networks Africa.

SEPTEMBER
Gal Level's launch on the 3rd September and its expected to the best ever in the country with artists coming from Africa including: Toniks (Uganda), Roberto & General Ozzy(Zambia), Kalahari-ans(Namibia) and many more from south Africa.

Apart from the launch itself, KN256 is lining up it's projects for recording and video shootings.
Money buy me Love-Toniks (Uganda) & Gal Level (Namibia) is to be shot from Namibia by the best producers around the continent according to Ogopa Butterfly Namibia.

Priceless-Toniks (Uganda) & Roberto(Zambia) is to to also be shot from the same country as decided by different african managers by Munyaradzi(Nigeria) and Hasz Media Ent. Africa from Uganda.

The musicians who performed at the FIFA World Cup™ Kick-off Celebration Concert included
Lira, Angelique Kidjo, K'Naan, Freshlyground, Soweto Gospel Choir, Parlotones, Amadou & Mariam, Hugh Masekela, Blk Jks, Tinariwen, Mzansi Youth Choir, Vieux Farka Toure, Vusi Mahlasela, Alicia Keys, Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, John Legend, etc

The first FIFA World Cup™ on the African continent may be scheduled to kick off on 11 June 2010 but the event begins in earnest the night before with the inaugural FIFA World Cup™ Kick-off Celebration Concert.

You can view the concert at this link

Watch Lira & Hugh Masekela perform at the concert

Mimi Divalish, Sarkodie, Samini, Obrafour join South African musicians in a World Cup bash at the start of the Mzansi Mundial, the 2010 FIFA World Cup which starts June 11th. The venue will be the Pretoria Show grounds. The event is being organized by FIFA in collaboration with Kofi Pinkrah media.

Mimi is a former Big Brother Africa Housemate and released a successful debut album called Music in me. Check out her two new singles Shayo and Kiss and tell. She is the only female artiste on the show.

Sarkodie is the reigning Ghanaian artiste of the year who also doubles as the best new African artiste at the recently ended Museke Online Africa Music Awards (MOAMas). Samini won the best dancehall song in the same MOAMAs while Obrafour, a Ghanaian rap legend, made a great comeback last year with his Kasiebo winning collaboration of the year at the Ghana Music Awards.

K'Naan, Freshlyground, Soweto Gospel Choir, Hugh Masekela, Mzansi Youth Choir have been named to the final line-up of African and South African artists for the FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert. FIFA and Control Room, a producer of global music events, today made the announcement.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa (Mzansi Mundial) song has a new remix an the video premiered today, Thursday April 29 on MTV.

The third single from K'Naan sophomore album Troubadour, "Wavin' Flag" was chosen as the Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the Mzansi Mundial in June this year. The Waving Flag Coca Cola celebration mix is the theme song for the World Cup 2010 in South Africa and part of EA Sports FIFA 2010 World Cup soundtrack. Shakira and Freshlyground's Time for Africa seems to be the official World Cup anthem, a song which samples a very popular track from Cameroun called Zangelewa.

See the lyrics for the World Cup song here and that of the original Wavin' Flag here. Versions of the single have been recorded in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Carlou D, The Gangbe Brass Band, Les Espoirs De Coronthie, Les Freress Guisse, Victor Deme headline the UK’s largest free African music festival.

Africa Oyé returns to Sefton Park, Liverpool in 2010, bigger and better than ever. Year on year, the UK’s largest free African music festival just keeps on growing...
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Africa Oye’s Pre Festival Party with the

Here's the Spanish version of Shakira's World Cup song which samples a popular Camerounian song, Zangelewa

You can watch the video for the English version - Time for Africa - featuring South African group/band Freshlyground at this link. Time for Africa has been chosen as the official World Cup song, Time for Africa in Spanish is Esto es Africa.
You can download the Spanish song here

Video

The theme song for the World Cup in South Africa has been released and a video montage is available as well. The Mzansi Mundial anthem features South African group/band Freshlyground and Colombian singer, Shakira. The video for 'Time for Africa' shows some footage of the 2009 World Cup in Germany.

The song has been released to radio stations across the world this week and is available for download. Colombian singer Shakira and Cape Town's Freshlyground will perform the song live on June 10 at the official FIFA pre-tournament concert at Soweto Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, as well as before the start of the World Cup final in Johannesburg on July 11, 2010.

Time for Africa samples Zangelewa, an army/marching song popular from the 80's in Cameroon. The song's lyrics are in the Fang language.

Watch the Time for Africa video featuring world football stars and fans.

South Africa's Grammy-winning choir Soweto Gosepl Choir once featured U2's Bono on their One track from their African Spirit album. This time, they are teaming up with U2 for some sound bites, or "inserts" about South Africa that will be used in ESPN's coverage of the World Cup. They also both performed at South Africa's anti-AIDS 46664 Concert benefit in 2003.

Listen to some Soweto Gospel Choir songs at this link.

Here is some more info from ESPN

Commencing June 11, the network’s coverage will use specially recorded music by Soweto Gospel Choir recorded and filmed in South Africa, with music and live concert footage from U2’s record breaking concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., in October 2009. This collaboration will appear in every program throughout ESPN’s presentation of the 2010 FIFA World Cup including soccer highlights, match and studio coverage.