The Pan-African KORA All-Africa Music Awards returns this year with a bang. There is even a US$1 million cash prize. The Kora Awards is in some legal wranglings with the Cross River State government over their chosen venue, which initially was in Calabar but CEO Ernest Adjovi and the organizers want to organize the event in Lagos instead. I hope these cases are settled amicably and the KORA awards take place in December this year. After all, the nominees are out. You can see the nominees for the non-regional categories below and those for regional categories here. I am excited about the nominees, because I hadn't heard of half of them before, and it truely encompasses groups from all over Africa, irregardless of genre, style, language, popularity, reputation or country.
Nominee name (artiste/group) - name of song - name of country
Best Traditional Artiste or Group
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu blue - Mali
Freres Guedehoungue - Danger public - Benin
Mamou Sidibe - Mary - Mali
Nicole Amogho - Mbila - Gabon
Santy Dorim - Africa foga - Togo
Teriba - Gan na ho - Benin
Best Hip-hop
Astar - In the name of Jesus - Kenya
Jub Jub - Ndikhokhele - South Africa
Mokobe - C'est dans la jolie - Mali
Ruggedman - Ruggedy baba - Nigeria
Sasha - Adara - Nigeria
Smockey - Old school - Burkina Faso
Best Ragga
Blackky - African dance hall king - Nigeria
Chronik 2h - Move it - Senegal
Ischam Morrahd - Darling - Democratic Republic of Congo
Jusa - Vangani - Zimbabwe
Lex-t - She loves me - Nigeria
Redsan - Desire - Kenya
Best Reggae
Bebe Cool - Born in Africa - Uganda
Fikira Babatunde - Il faut travailler - Benin
King Wadada - If men were God - Nigeria
Kisito - Ha loh - Burkina Faso
Princess Bassoura - Mosoge - Benin
Shasha Marley - Maata family - Ghana
Best Spiritual
Astar - In the name of Jesus - Kenya
Bebe Cool - Praise God - Uganda
Nikki Laoye - Never felt this way before - Nigeria
Noelle - Be my lord - Togo
Soweto Gospel Choir - Hlohonolopatsa - South Africa
Ty Bello - Greenland - Nigeria
Best African video clip
Asa - Fire on the mountain - Nigeria
Eric Wainaina - Twende wende - Kenya
Just A Band - Iwino piny - Kenya
LS - Mon rayon de soleil - Democratic Republic of Congo
P-Square - No one like you - Nigeria
Patrick Ruffino - Ewa ka jo - Benin
Best Arrangement
Jeff Malueke - Manano - South Africa
Jimmy Dludlu - Tote - South Africa
Neema Ntalel - Foolish - Kenya
Nikki Laoye - Never felt this way before - Nigeria
Oliver Mtukdzi - Chikara - Zimbabwe
Valerie kimani - Besame mucho - Kenya
Best African Artiste/Group in Africa/African Diaspora
Akon - Don't matter - USA/Senegal
Dzany Mpiana - Mwana mboka - Belgium
Rihanna - Umbrella - Barbados
Wakamba Wawili - Musiq ya soul - Kenya
Lil Wayne - Lollipop - USA
Alicia keys - No one - USA
Most Promising Artiste
Becca - Sugar - Ghana
Jahdiel - Heritage - Nigeria
LS - Mon rayon de soleil - Democratic Republic of Congo
Nikki - Niwe wako milele - Kenya
Toofan - Parle parle - Togo
9ice - Little money - Nigeria
Best Artiste or Group in the Carribean
Acho - The only one - Nigeria
Dj Wilson - Turn me up - Guadeloupe
Edouard Sevele - Nou ja passe la - Guadeloupe
La-mc Malcriado - Mas amor - Cape Verde
Bamboolaz - Ka fe cho - Guadeloupe
Antipalu - Guerre et paix - Cote D'Ivoire
The jury for the nominations included Emmanuelle Pontie (France), Charles Otieno (Kenya), Awilo Longomba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Baba Aminu Abdulkareem (Nigeria), Guguletu Sibiya (South Africa)
Vote for your favorite artistes/musicians/groups at the Kora Awards website.
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Don't you just love the Kora Africa Music Awards? It's nice to see them back this year. After the bunch of stories regarding who had been nominated from the African countries, it's down to the actual categories and the musicians who will be running for the awards/silverware. I had never heard about a ton of these artistes and a ton of them have almost no web presence, but we'll try to choose who may win in the end. Here are my choices/predictions.
For the Best Traditional Artiste or Group, all the artistes are from West Africa. What does that tell us? Did Ernest Adjovi and his crew not research into other groups? According to me, Mamou Sidibe is the most popular of these and I'll be voting for her.
For MTV Africa, it was Naeto C and IkeChukwu, for the Kora Awards, it is Ruggedman. How isn't 9ice nominated here? Smockey is relatively unknown and Jub Jub is quite famous for his lyrics. I'll go with Mokobe here, he HAS to win a major award this year. He's had an excellent one.
The only guy amongst the Best Ragga nominees I knew was Redsan. So I will be voting for him too. :-) However, Blackky and Chronik 2h are hot. Redsan shot a video in France, he's big like that.
Bebe Cool is having an awesome year! There's been controversy because his nominated song samples another 'Born in Africa' song. Shasha Marley nominated here? Pleasant surprise. He gets my vote.
I've loved Astar ever since I heard his 'Taxi Driver' track. Bebe Cool is nominated for the best spiritial award too? Soweto Gospel Choir won a Grammy this year and they are totally awesome. I am going to have to go for TY Bello here though, with Greenland
Just A Band's video is marvelous! The Kora Awards got it right. They nominated both Fire on the Mountain and No one like you. But no Potbelly? LS and Ruffino's videos are great and I can't find anywhere to watch the Twende twende video. We have the song on Museke.com though. I'm going to vote for Just A Band for their excellent animation effort though I have a soft spot for P-Square's video too.
Can you overlook Oliver Mtukudzi when it comes to arrangement? I vote Chikara for the Best Arrangement award.
For the Best African Artiste/Group in Africa/African Diaspora, we have some huge names, Akon, Lil Wayne, Rihanna and Alicia Keys. I don't know the nominees from the continent. This is a tough one, I'll go for Akon
For the Most Promising Artiste award, I was going to crown 9ice but Nikki, LS, and Becca are going to be great too. With those 150 million backing Abolore Akande, he may turn out to be the best. So 9ice it is.
Never knew Nigeria was in the Carribean, I am at a loss as to who would win the Best Artiste or Group in the Carribean award. Acho is my choice
These nominations are very unique, new names, new faces, new concepts. i really appreciate these and i believe we Africans are driving onto a new level in entertainment. One Love. My Predictions for now are reserved because i need to make research about all these nominees and then will be able to draw up a good conclusion.
for Best Raggae however, Lex-t-She Loves Me, i believe is tight, new and Real and even Redsan-Desire is another.
i strongly feel u guys.
Africa!!! One Love!
u guyz r doin great,i luv d nominees for each categories keep it up
RDC Congo's music is always there it it will for ever be there.
cOnGRAT TO ALL THE cONGOLESE MUSICIANS WHO HAVE MADE IT AGAIN FOR THIS YEAR.
Why wld 9ice be in promsng artist,its nt nice at all.he is d hottert in africa.so hm nt hapy sha.
iwill coment on bebe cool from uganda because of his good music that he play like tmptation &lonely which are hotter than those of those other musicians and fire anthem add on praise god why cant i give him my vote let him take it to be the winner in raggae ragga and spritual songs
Africans are really doing it big in entertainment! All over the continent, we are doing the dancehall as good as the Caribbeans, the R&B and Hip hop as good as the Americans and even the reggae! That's what I am talking about.
Bebe Cool has done really well to be nominated in different categories.
As for DR Congo and music, that country is really blessed. South Africa will have something to say about that though.
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