See List – Wizkid Bags Six Nominations At The 2021 AFRIMA Awards

See List – Wizkid Bags Six Nominations At The 2021 AFRIMA Awards

The list was from over the 8,880 songs submitted for adjudication and features over 400 songs from artists in the 30 continental and 10 regional categories. As seen on the list, the most nominated Nigerian act is Wizkid, who leads with six nominations. He follows South African artist Focalistic who has seven nominations, while the duo Blaq Diamond, also South African, has the highest number of nominations. The duo scored eight nominations for their song ‘SummerYoMuthi’

Wizkid’s nominations include; ‘Artiste of the Year in Africa’, ‘Best Male Artist in Western Africa’, ‘Album of the Year’, ‘Best African Collab’, ‘Song of the Year’ and ‘Best Duo in African R&B’.

Omah Lay clinched four nominations; Artiste of the Year in Africa, Best Artiste in Western Africa, Best Artiste, Duo or Group in African Pop, and Breakout Artiste of the Year.

Davido and Patoranking also joined Omah Lay to bag four nominations each while Burna Boy, Tems, Olamide, Vector, Tiwa Savage, Bella Shmurda have three nominations each. Yemi Alade and Ladipoe have two nominations each.

AFRIMA in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) will be broadcast live on 84 television stations in 109 countries from Lagos, Nigeria from November 19-21, 2021.

See the categories list below:

Davido: Best Male Artiste in Western Africa, Album of the Year, Artiste of the Year, and Song of the year.

Burna Boy: Best Male Artiste in Western Africa, Album of the Year, and Artiste of the year

Tems: Best Artiste in African R&B, Breakout Artiste of the Year and Best Female Artiste in Western Africa,

Adekunle Gold: Songwriter of the Year

Tiwa Savage: Songwriter of the Year, Album of the Year

Olamide: Album of the Year, and Best Male Artiste in Western Africa

Ayra Starr: Most Promising African Artiste

Yemi Alade: Best Artiste In African Dance

Ladipoe: Best African Rapper

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