All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, in partnership with the Africa Union Commission, AUC, will open submission of entries for this year’s edition of the continental awards on Monday, May 18, 2015. Music professionals of African origin, including artistes, songwriters, video directors, music/entertainment journalists and music producers resident on the continent or abroad, are eligible to enter in any of the 33 award categories. The entry submission closes on Monday, July 20, 2015. According to the organizers, works to be submitted must be produced in the year under review –May 31, 2014 to July 20, 2015. They also announced that detailed information about eligibility and format of submission are available on www.afrima.org. Saying, entries should be done by completing the registration form on AFRIMA website with a URL link of the music work on YouTube, SoundCloud, MySpace and other compatible platforms which must be included in the space provided on the entry registration form. For hard copy entries, participants are advised to download the registration form and the completed copy alongside two copies of the entry which must be sent to the nearest physical address provided on the AFRIMA website.
The dates for entry submission and closing were recently announced by the AFRIMA President/Executive Producer, Mr. Mike Dada, during the AUC-AFRIMA Joint Conference held on April 29, 2015 at the African Union Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference witnessed by international media, select African music super stars, members of the international committee of AFRIMA and senior AUC officials, also served as a forum for unveiling the AFRIMA 2015 event calendar by the AUC Commissioner of Social Affairs, His Excellency, Dr. Mustapha S. Kaloko, who formally declared the 2015 activities of AFRIMA open.