Africa United Through Music
The theme for this year’s Channel O Music Video Awards was “Uniting Africa Through Music” and Africa’s leading music channel has gone to extra lengths to ensure that this year’s event was bigger, better, and more spectacular than ever.
And it really was a spectacular show on October 9 at the Big Top Arena, Carnival City, Johannesburg! Performers from all around Africa came together to entertain the continent and they were duly rewarded! The Channel O MVAs recognizes excellence and contributions towards developing music on the continent.
Top Nigerian artistes who won laurels at the event include: Ikechukwu (Best Male Video), P Square (Best Duo or Group) and (Video of the Year), M-Trill (Best African West), and KC Presh (Best Hip Hop Video), Lizha James (Mozambique) – Best Female Video; Buffalo Souljah (Zimbabwe) – Best Newcomer and Best Ragga Dancehall Video; Lady May (Namibia) – Best Dance; Gal Level (Namibia) – Best R & B Video; The Dogg (Namibia) – Best Kwaito; Freshly Ground (South Africa) – Best African Southern; and Witness ft Fid Q (Tanzania) – Best African East.
The two VJs’ that hosted the big event are the effervescent Kabelo “KB” Ngakane, who has been with Channel O since 1998, and his chic co-host Nonhle “Diva” Thema.
The Channel O music Video Awards are distinctly African and the winners are entirely chosen by the viewing public across the continent and not by a panel of judges. This means that fans really can make a difference between artists being a nominee or a winner and give countries the chance to fly the flag high for their own nominees.
The Channel O Music Video Awards are also the first Pan-African television awards ceremony to celebrate distinctly African music.
Jimmy Dludlu paid tribute to his friend and mentor, George Lee Larnyoh, who received the 2008 Special Recognition Award on September 16th.
