Anita Fabiola in the US for the AFRIMMA awards

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05 Oct 2018 11:46 AM @ugandaonline

The 5th African Muzik Magazine Awards and Music Festival (AFRIMMA) will be going down this Sunday, Oct 7, 2018 at the House of Blues in Dallas, Texas.

The awarding event will be hosted by our very own Anita Fabiola who is already in Dallas just in time for the AFRIMMA 2018 weekend that starts today with Afrimma Music Panel to be followed by the AFRIMMA fashion show and the AFRIMMA awards will be held on Sunday. 

"Guess what!!! So happy to be hosting this year’s prestigious AFRIMMA awards with Eric Omondi. This is the biggest celebration of African excellence in Music & Entertainment," Anita Fabiola noted. 

Some of the artists that will be performing at the event include star singer, Eddy Kenzo from Uganda, Simi, Mr Flavour and Yemi Alade from Nigeria among others.
 

Some of the categories that artists will be battling out for awards include; 

Song of the Year

• Wizkid-Soco
• Big Shaq - Man's not hot
• Afro B - Joanna (Drogba)
• Diamond Platnumz ft Omarion - African Beauty
• Distruction Boyz - Omunye
• Davido - Fia
• Nasty & Runtown - Said
• Duncan Mighty ft Wizkid - Fake Love
• Major Lazer & DJ Maphoriza ft Ice Prince, Nasty C, Pato Ranking & Jidenna - Particular
• Harmonize ft Diamond Platnumz -Kwangwaru

Wizkid and Diamond Platnumz both have two nods to help them battle an equally strong team behind the Particular song, but we can only wait to see who takes the day on Sunday.

Artist of the Year

• Davido - Nigeria
• Cassper Nyovest - South Africa
• Wizkid - Nigeria
• Diamond Platnumz - Tanzania
• Fally Ipupa - Congo
• Mafikizolo - South Africa
• Sarkodie- Ghana
• MHD - Guinea
• Nasty C- South Africa
• Mr. Flavour - Nigeria

Short of that, our female artists that include: Juliana Kanyomozi, Rema Namakula, Sheebah Karungi and Leila Kayondo are nominated in the category of 'Best Female East Africa' while Bebe Cool and Eddy Kenzo face off with Diamond Platnumz for the award of 'Best Male East Africa'

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