Organisers of KORA (All African Music) Awards have opened their door to artistes who want to partake in the 2015 edition of the awards ceremony.

A representative of KORA Awards, Wofai Samuel, disclosed that the event will take place on Sunday, December 13, 2015 in Windhoek, Namibia.

According to Samuel, entries for the event are in 27 categories and are also opened to artistes in the
African continent and in the Diaspora.

Winner of the ‘Best Artist of the Continent’, according to the organisers, will take home $1 million and to get that, an artiste must have been voted the best of their respective region (East, West, Southern, Northern, Central).

Other categories also come with monetary reward. However, this money, Samuel disclosed, will only be given to award-winners who are in attendance at the awards ceremony, while artistes that missed the event will only get their trophies.


The organisers noted that artistes can enter in one or more categories of their choice, while the song(s) must have been released between January 1st, 2014 and July 15, 2015.

“The artist, author, or composer of the titles in competition mustsubmit his/her application(s) to the KORA Awards’ Team in Abidjan untilJuly 20, 2015,” a statement made available to First Weekly by the organisers last week said.

Also, artistes are expected to write a “formal letter of authorization to be sent to KORA Awards Committee” to permit “the use of your image, videos, music andbiography for promotion of the current KORA edition,” which must be sent to info@koraawards.orgor entries@koraawards.com.

It was disclosed that the songs must be in digital or CD formats, while two colour publicity photographs in format jpeg, pngmust be submitted, which should not be in passport size.

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