KORA All-Africa Awards Unveil 2016 Nominees with SoundcityTV as Official Broadcast Partner and Namibia as Host

KORA All-Africa Music Awards, the African continent's first
and premier award ceremony in the musical arts has
announced the nominees in the 26 categories for her 2016
edition. The award ceremony taking place at the Windhoek
Country Club in Namibia has partnered with SoundcityTV
Africa as official Broadcast Media.

The Award Ceremony which is set to take place on the 20th
of March 2016, and will form part of the host country -
Namibia's annual National Day celebrations would be
televised live on SoundcityTV - Channel 327 on DSTV, GOtv
Channel 75 and her digital platforms across 55 countries.
SoundcityTV delivers the very best of Culture, Music,

Entertainment and Lifestyle to a worldwide audience, a
fitting for the KORA All-Africa Awards.
“We are excited about the partnership to take the 2016 KORA
All-Africa Award to 55 countries and to our over 40 million
audience via the live broadcast and digital platforms," said
Mr. Tajuddeen Adepetu, who is Chief Executive at
Consolidated Media Associates and Executive Producer at
SoundcityTV Africa. "We are inspired by the incredible work
of KORA team over the last 12 years and then by 2016 crop
of nominees for the award. Next year's ceremony would be
nothing short of spectacular even to audience who would be
tuned in from their homes via SoundcityTV."
The Namibian government who would be playing host for
the March 20th ceremony has thrown her weight fully
behind the 2016 edition of the Award. In a communication
recently issued by the Namibian Ministry of Environment and
Tourism in conjunction with the Ministries of Education, Arts
& Culture; and Information and Communication Technology,

the Namibian government expressed the
belief that the
creative industries play a key role in contributing to the
economy and in doing so, furthering the poverty alleviation
agenda through tourism, the cultural arts and the creative
industries which largely informed the partnership with the
Organizers of KORA.
The statement from the Namibian government in part read:
'These programmes are designed to ensure Namibian's
participation in this landmark event, and assure that the
country's tourism, ICT and art industries benefit directly
from the events being hosted in Namibia. As such, we are
pleased to endorse the KORA AII-Africa Music Awards and
anticipate the positive impact it will have on Namibia's
creative economy.

It is our further belief that the KORA All-Africa Music Awards
also represents a unique opportunity for public-private
partnership to jointly collaborate in the delivery of a
landmark event, and as such, encourage role-players in the
private sector to explore partnership opportunities with the
event.' The full Media Release by the Namibian Government
is available on Soundcity.tv website.
The 2016 KORA All-Africa Awards' nomination list released
via @SoundcityTV twitter account and on
the koraawards.com website on the 3rd of November, 2015
saw over a 100 of the most promising and gifted artistes
nominated across the four regions of the continent.

Nigerian artistes and categories they are nominated are:
Reekado Banks for Most Promising Male Artist of Africa;
Yemi Alade for Most Promising Female Artist of Africa; P-
Square for Legendary Award; Tiwa Savage, Flavour N'abania
and Korede Bello for Best Video; Lara George for Best
Female - Spiritual Music; Flavour scores a second
nomination for 'Best Male - West Africa' alongside Davido;
Tiwa Savage is also nominated for 'Best Female - West
Africa' while Bracket are up for Best Group of Africa; The trio
of BNG are nominated for Best Group - Spiritual; Mavins'
'Adaobi' is nominated for Best Collaboration.
It is also noteworthy that winners from every category would
not only be going home with the coveted KORA plaques but
cash prizes ranging from twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)
to a million dollars ($1,000,000).
The countdown begins!