In continuation of its drive towards this year’s programme of events, the organisers of the All Africa Music Awards will be holding a stakeholders’ conference in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday.
Scheduled to take place at Hotel Africana, the event is the second in the series of other engagements with music enthusiasts across Africa, coming after a successful AUC-AFRIMA joint conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently, according to PRM Africa, producers of the event.
A statement from the AFRIMA Secretariat in Lagos revealed that the Kampala conference will bring together media executives, artistes, record label owners, artistes’ managers, music entrepreneurs, music enthusiasts and relevant government officials to discuss strategies and actions needed to facilitate a better involvement of stakeholders from Eastern Africa in the Awards scheme.
The AFRIMA team is also expected to speak on public entries for the 2015 Award, which opened on Monday, as well as other build-up events towards the main ceremony in November.
Ahead of tomorrow’s event, AFRIMA will today, be partnering with Uganda’s music industry at its annual music industry conference tagged The MIC.
The conference will have”The Social, Economic, and Political Impact of Music” as its theme.
One of the speakers at the conference is AFRIMA’s Project Director, Adenrele Niyi, who will be speaking on the topic: What did Nigeria do to dominate African music business?
Speaking on the project, Mike Dada, the Executive Producer of AFRIMA, noted: “AFRIMA is more than just an award ceremony but is also interested in capacity building of music entrepreneurs, and artistes as a tool for the economic growth of the music industry in Africa. We are glad for this collaboration, and I promise that AFRIMA will be beamed live in Uganda.”
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