The 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards was indeed a trilling one. The event which took place on Saturday night at the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg, was hosted by Bonang Matheba.
What a big night for Nigerian musicians such as Wizkid who added to his archives three major awards namely: Artist of the Year, Best Male and Best Collaboration, Tekno was named Best Breakthrough Act, Patoranking featuring Nigeria’s Wande Coal got the Song of the Year in partnership with Google with “My Woman, My Everything”, while co-host, Nigeria’s Yemi Alade took home Best Female.
What a big night for Nigerian musicians such as Wizkid who added to his archives three major awards namely: Artist of the Year, Best Male and Best Collaboration, Tekno was named Best Breakthrough Act, Patoranking featuring Nigeria’s Wande Coal got the Song of the Year in partnership with Google with “My Woman, My Everything”, while co-host, Nigeria’s Yemi Alade took home Best Female.
South Africa's Cassper Nyovest went away with the Best Live Act, while Emtee was deemed Best Hip Hop and Caster Semenya got away with the 2016 Personality of the Year as Hugh Masekela was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. Kenya didn’t disappoint either, as Sauti Sol got the award for Best Group.
Other categories includes the Video of the Year went to “Niquer Ma Vie” – Youssoupha (Congo), directed
by Antony Abdelli & Jose Eon, while the Best Pop & Alternative went to Shekinah & Kyle Deutsch (South Africa) as the Best Francophone went to Serge Beynaud (Ivory Coast).
The Best Lusophone was C4 Pedro (Angola); the Personality of the Year in association with DSTV was Caster Semenya (South Africa) and the Legend Award went to Hugh Masekela.
culled DailyPost
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