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The All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, and the African Union Commission 
are set to bring 2014 to a close with a show-stopping awards ceremony 
scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 27, at the prestigious Grand 
Ballroom, Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos. </div>
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In partnership with the African Union Commission, AUC, AFRIMA will be 
rewarding excellence in the continental music and media industry at the 
main awards ceremony.<br /><br />Preceding the ceremony will be the African 
Music Summit themed “Reviving the Business of Music in Africa” slated 
for the morning of Saturday, December 27, at the Oriental Hotel. </div>
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The Summit is a platform for African and global music industry 
stakeholders to network and deliberate on how the music industry can be 
nurtured and structured to be a major contributor to national and 
continental economies.</div>
<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a><br />For the 2014 edition, the award project opened 
entry submission in 31 categories on May 15 and closed the submission of
 entries on July 21 in the process receiving a staggering total of 2,025
 works for assessment submitted by African music industry artistes, 
professionals and journalists.<br />
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The AFRIMA nominees list unveiling occurred in Lagos, Nigeria on 
Tuesday, September 23 amidst world media fanfare, with popular African 
music names jostling alongside emerging music forces for space on the 
list.<br /><br />The Public and AFRIMA Academy voting began on the AFRIMA 
www.afrima.org on September 30 and expected to end on November 4. 
However, public voting was further extended by three weeks only ending 
on Tuesday, November 25, thereby allowing African music fans and 
followers more time to vote for their favourite artistes.<br /><br />In the 
course of the invite-only award ceremony night, more than 30 of AFRIMA’s
 23.9-carat gold-plated trophies will be received by music acts or 
groups in their respective categories. The trophy recipients will also 
include an AFRIMA Legend Awardee and the African Entertainment / Music 
Journalist of the year. To spice up the proceedings will be sizzling 
performances from some of Africa’s top performing artistes and bands.<br /><br />“There
 is so much excitement in store for guests who attend the both the 
Africa Music Summit and AFRIMA main award ceremony. The Summit provides 
ample opportunity for robust and strategic deliberations on developing 
the African music industry to compete with the better developed 
industries around the globe”, stresses Delani Makhalima, AFRIMA Juror 
from Zimbabwe.<br /><br />Mr. Makhalima also states: “When we are done with 
the vital intellectual aspect of the event calendar, all attention turns
 to the glamourous, star-studded, cultural concept award ceremony for a 
fitting finale to the last weekend in 2014. AFRIMA is eager to welcome 
our African music stars from within and outside the continent, officials
 of the African Union Commission, members of the<br /><br />International Committee of AFRIMA and special guests”.<br /><br />Although
 committed to delivering a world-class 2014 award event, the 
International Committee of AFRIMA, AFRIMA reveals that part of the 
ceremony’s programme will pay tribute to lives affected by the scourge 
of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in some West African states and terrorist 
insurgency in Northern Nigeria, Somalia and part of Kenya -both 
disturbing trends had necessitated the rescheduling of the award 
ceremony.</div>

All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) Now Set For December 27th

The All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, and the African Union Commission are set to bring 2014 to a close with a show-stopping awards c...