{"id":25223,"date":"2016-11-07T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=25223"},"modified":"2016-11-07T10:11:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T10:11:13","slug":"uganda-wins-at-the-afrimas-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-wins-at-the-afrimas-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda wins at the AFRIMA’s in Lagos."},"content":{"rendered":"

The 3rd edition of the <\/strong>All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) took place in Lagos<\/strong>\u00a0Sunday the 6th<\/sup> November 2016 in\u00a0Lagos<\/strong><\/em>, Nigeria<\/p>\n

The night saw\u00a0Cindy Sanyu\u00a0beat Yemi Alade, Evelyn Wanjiru (Kenya) and Sinachi (Nigeria) to win Best Female East Africa accolade but lost out to\u00a0Patoranking (Nigeria) for the Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African Ragga & Dancehall gong<\/p>\n

Eddy Kenzo won the Best Collaboration award for the\u00a0Mbilo Mbilo rmx\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>ft. Nigerian Niniola. they beat off competition from Tiwa Savage Ft Dr. Sid (Nigeria – If I Start to Talk) Sarkodie ft Pat Thomas (Ghana \u2013 Bra) who were in the same category<\/p>\n

Song writer of the year award went to another Ugandan Unique For Navio\u2019s hit single Njogereza fending off competition from Eddy Kenzo’s (Mbilo Mbilo) remix ft\u00a0& Niniola (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

The only other east African winner on the night was Diamond Platnumz from Tanzania who beat fellow East Africans Navio\u00a0& Eddy Kenzo to the Best Male East Africa & Song of the year<\/p>\n

Jose Chameleone, Bebe Cool, Irene Ntale, Juliana Kanyomozi\u00a0were the other ugandan artists who come home empty handed.<\/p>\n

HERE\u2019S THE FULL LIST OF WINNERS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Best Male East Africa \u2013 Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania)<\/li>\n
  2. Best Female East Africa \u2013 Cindy Sanyu (Uganda)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. Best Male South Africa \u2013 Black Coffee (South Africa)<\/li>\n
  4. Best female South Africa \u2013 Sally Boss Madam (Namibia)<\/li>\n
  5. Best Male Central Africa- Wax Dey (Cameroon)<\/li>\n
  6. Best Female Central Africa- Bruna Tatiana (Angola)<\/li>\n
  7. Best Male North Africa \u2013 DJ Van (Morocco)<\/li>\n
  8. Best Female North Africa- Zina Daoudia (Morocco)<\/li>\n
  9. Best Male West Africa \u2013 Flavour (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  10. Best Female West Africa \u2013 Aramide (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  11. Best Inspirational Female \u2013 Naomi Achu (Cameroon)<\/li>\n
  12. Best Artiste\/Dou\/GroupBand in African Contemporary- Flavour (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  13. Most Promising Artiste- Amine Aub (Morocco)<\/li>\n
  14. African Fans Favorite \u2013 Phyno (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  15. Song writer of the year \u2013 Unique (Uganda)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  16. Special Recognition Award- King Sunny Ade (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  17. Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African Hiphop- Stanley Enow (Cameroon)<\/li>\n
  18. Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African Ragga & Dancehall- Patoranking (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  19. Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African Traditional music- Zeynab (Benin)<\/li>\n
  20. Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African Electro -Such (Zimbabwe)<\/li>\n
  21. Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African RnB \u2013 Henok & Mehari Brothers (Ethiopia)<\/li>\n
  22. Best Artist\/Duo\/Group in African Rock -M\u2019vula (Angola)<\/li>\n
  23. Best African Jazz \u2013 Jimmy Dludlu (South Africa)<\/li>\n
  24. Best African Group -VVIP (Ghana)<\/li>\n
  25. Best African Collaboration \u2013 Mbilo Mbilo by Eddy Kenzo (Uganda) ft Niniola (Nigeria)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  26. Video of the Year \u2013 Dogo Yaro by VVIP (Ghana)<\/li>\n
  27. Revelation of the year \u2013 Falz (Nigeria)<\/li>\n
  28. Album of the year \u2013 Ahmed Soultan (Morocco)<\/li>\n
  29. Song of the year- Utanipenda by Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania)<\/li>\n
  30. Artist of the Year -Wizkid (Nigeria)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The 3rd edition of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) took place in Lagos\u00a0Sunday the 6th November 2016 in\u00a0Lagos, Nigeria The night saw\u00a0Cindy Sanyu\u00a0beat Yemi Alade, Evelyn Wanjiru (Kenya) and Sinachi (Nigeria) to win Best Female East Africa accolade but lost out to\u00a0Patoranking (Nigeria) for the Best Artist\/Duo\/Group African Ragga & Dancehall gong Eddy Kenzo won the Best Collaboration award for the\u00a0Mbilo Mbilo rmx\u00a0ft. Nigerian Niniola. they beat off competition from Tiwa Savage Ft Dr. Sid (Nigeria – If I Start to Talk) Sarkodie ft Pat Thomas (Ghana \u2013 Bra) who were in the same category Song writer of the year award went to another Ugandan Unique For Navio\u2019s hit single Njogereza fending off competition from Eddy Kenzo’s (Mbilo Mbilo) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}