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AFRIMA 2015 Entry Opens May 18

All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the Africa Union Commission, AUC, will open submission of entries for this year’s edition of the continental awards on Monday, May 18, 2015.
Music professionals of African origin including artistes, songwriters, video directors, music/entertainment journalists and music producers resident on the continent or abroad are eligible to enter in any of the 33 award categories. Submission for entry closes on Monday, July 20, 2015. Works to be submitted must be produced in the year under review –May 31, 2014 to July 20, 2015.
Entries are expected to be done by completing the registration form on AFRIMA website, while provision is made for the inclusion of a URL link of the music work on YouTube, SoundCloud, MySpace and other compatible platforms.
Mike Dada, the AFRIMA President/Executive Producer, announced the dates for entry submission and closing during the AUC-AFRIMA Joint Conference at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference witnessed by international media, select African music super stars, members of the international committee of AFRIMA and senior AUC officials, also served as a forum for unveiling the AFRIMA 2015 event calendar by Mustapha Kaloko, the AUC Commissioner of Social Affairs, who formally declared the 2015 activities of AFRIMA open.
Kaloko said: “The AU calendar for Social Affairs wants to use every opportunity available to us for social development and we have particular emphasis on youth because we believe they are the ones who will continue to push the agenda for Africa’s development in the future”.

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Written by Temitope Adeogun

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