{"id":71038,"date":"2014-12-03T13:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=71038"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:14:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T21:14:14","slug":"afrima-close-2014-world-class-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/12\/afrima-close-2014-world-class-event\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRIMA to close 2014 with world-class event"},"content":{"rendered":"
The All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, and the African Union Commission are set to bring 2014 to a close with a show-stopping awards ceremony scheduled to hold on Saturday, December 27, at the prestigious Grand Ballroom, Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.<\/p>\n
In partnership with the African Union Commission, AUC, AFRIMA will be rewarding excellence in the continental music and media industry at the main awards ceremony. Preceding the ceremony will be the African Music Summit themed \u201cReviving the Business of Music in Africa\u201d slated for the morning of Saturday, December 27, at the Oriental Hotel. The Summit is a platform for African and global music industry stakeholders to network and deliberate on how the music industry can be nurtured and structured to be a major contributor to national and continental economies.<\/p>\n
For the 2014 edition, the award project opened entry submission in 31 categories on May 15 and closed the submission of entries on July 21 in the process receiving a staggering total of 2,025 works for assessment submitted by African music industry artistes, professionals and journalists. The AFRIMA nominees list unveiling occurred in Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday, September 23 amidst world media fanfare, with popular African music names jostling alongside emerging music forces for space on the list.<\/p>\n