Road to AFRIMA 2022 Begins with Call for Entries
Stories by Vanessa Obioha
Recently, the African Union Commission, in partnership with the International Committee of All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) unveiled the calendar of events for the 2022 edition of the awards at the
AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The road to the eighth edition will begin tomorrow, May 30 with the call for entries which will close on Friday, August 5. The year-in-review for the entries is from August 20, 2021, to Friday, August 5, 2022.
The submissions will be vetted in the pre-screening process between August 5 and 8 by a special committee and categorised in accordance with AFRIMA entry submission guidelines. The main screening process, tagged as the Adjudication process, is carried out by a 13-man panel of experienced African music experts and practitioners drawn from the five regions of Africa and in the diaspora and will follow immediately from August 9 to 16.
The nominees will be unveiled on August 17, and voting will begin on August 24. Voting closes 24 hours before the awards ceremony and would be monitored and audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The three-day awards ceremony will be held from Thursday, November 3 to Saturday, November 6, 2022. It will feature a welcome soiree, followed by the AFRIMA Music Village, the host city tour, African Music Business Summit, and the exclusive nominees’ party and concluded with the live awards ceremony broadcast to over 84 countries around the world.
Speaking on behalf of the African Union, Director for Social Development, Culture and Sports Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Cisse Mariama Mohamed said, “Africa remains resilient and progressive in everything, and this is why our entertainment sector continues to make such huge leaps globally. And at the forefront of this lies our resolve to unite the continent through entertainment. AFRIMA is committed to this mission, upholding this tradition of celebrating the scintillating musical culture of Africa by featuring exhilarating Pan-Africa events throughout the year.”
