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The 2014 MTV Africa Music Awards took place at the Durban ICC, in South Africa on Saturday night with Sarkodie picking up the gong for Best Hiphop Artist of the Year. Mafikizolo and Davido\u00a0 won two awards each including artist of the year for Davido and Song of the year for Mafikizolo. Check out the full list of winners:<\/p>\n

Best Male:<\/b> Davido (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Best Female:<\/b> Tiwa Savage (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Best Group<\/b>: Mafikizolo (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Best New Act:<\/b> Stanley Enow (Cameroon)<\/p>\n

Best Live Act<\/b>: Flavour (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Best Collaboration:<\/b> \u201cY-tjukutja\u201d \u2013 Uhuru Ft. Oskido, DJ Bucks, Professor and Yuri Da Cunha (South Africa\/Angola)<\/p>\n

Best Hip Hop:<\/b> Sarkodie (Ghana)<\/p>\n

Best Alternative:<\/b> Gangs of Ballet (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Best Francophone:<\/b> Toofan (Togo)<\/p>\n

Best Lusophone:<\/b> Anselmo Ralph (Angola)<\/p>\n

Artist of the Year:<\/b> Davido (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Song of the Year:<\/b> \u201cKhona\u201d \u2013 Mafikizolo ft Uhuru (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Best Video:<\/b> Clarence Peters (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

Best Pop:<\/b> Goldfish (South Africa)<\/p>\n

Best International:<\/b> Pharrell <\/i><\/p>\n

Personality of the Year:<\/b> Lupita Nyong\u2019o (Kenya)<\/p>\n

MTV Base Leadership Award:<\/b> Ashish J. Thakkar (Tanzania)<\/p>\n

Transform Today Award by Absolut<\/b>: Clarence Peters (Nigeria)<\/p>\n

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Source: ameyawdebrah.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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