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Innocent Tuface Idibia, popularly a.ka  2Baba and Burna Boy were among the artistes that won awards at the 6th All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA)

The All Africa Music Awards was a four-day event which held at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

2Baba won the award for Best African Artiste in African contemporary and a Special Recognition Award which he won with Awilo Logomba.

Burna Boy, whose African Giant album was recently nominated for Grammy carted home the award for Best Male Artiste (West-Africa) and Artiste of the year award.

South African rapper, Nasty C also won the awards of Best African Collaboration and Best African Lyricist.

Nadia Nakai from South Africa was also among artistes that won two awards in the categories of Best Artiste in African Hip-Hop and Best Female Artist in Southern Africa.

17-year old Nikita Hering from Kenya stunned the audience after carting away the awards for Best Female Artiste in Eastern Africa and Revelation of the African Continent award.

Amiinux from Morroco also bagged two awards in the categories of Best Male Artiste in Northern Africa and Best African Dance or Choreography.

Also in the category of artistes that went home with two awards was the Kenyan group, Sauti Sol, who won the award for Album of the year and Best African Duo, group or band.

Other artistes that bagged awards were :Ayodeji Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, whose song, Fever, won the song of the year award and Tiwa Savage who won Best Female Artiste in West-Africa.

Desmond Sodamola, a popular Nigerian DJ with stage name DJ Spinall, won the Best African D.J while Kelvin Peter (Kel P) won the Best Producer of the year.

Kanve Adams from Liberia won the Songwriter of the Year award while Joseph Akinfenwa, popularly known as Joeboy won the award for Best Artiste in African Pop.

The event, which was hosted by South-African Host, Pearl Thusi and Comedian Eddie Kadi, saw the audience dancing to African music.

Some of the artistes that performed were: Teni, Joeboy, Skibbi, Sauti Sol, Nikita Kering and Awilo Logomba. (NAN)

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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