AfriMusic Song Contest

The AfriMusic Song Contest is song contest loosely inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest. It was first held in 2018, where Swaziland won with Symphony performing the song Sengikhona. The contest is planned to continue as an annual event, acting as an African counterpart to the European and Asian editions of Eurovision.[1]

2018

42 countries took part in the AfriMusic Song Contest in 2018. Through an expert panel, this was cut down to 19 countries in a final. In both national selections and the final, the winners were here decided by a public vote and expert panels.[2][3][4]

Finalists

Country Song Artist Placement
 Swaziland Sengikhona Symphony 1st
 Cameroon Stop Ingrid White 2nd
 Zimbabwe Close To Me Nina Watson 3rd
 Botswana Coloured Skin Feine 4th
 Côte d'Ivoire Just En Peu CCI Studio Orchestra 5th
 Gabon Saint Graal S A N 6th
 South Africa Secondhand Narcotics Kylie Unsworth 7th
 DRC Africa Litho Ngonga 8th
 Chad Sincérité STEV'N-T 9th
 Egypt In a Fit of Remorse Nadya Shanab 10th
 Ghana Together Erastus 11th
 CAR Wali Ti Mbi Hybrid 12th
 Mozambique Mon Amour JayCudz 13th
 Nigeria Jesu Me Yo We Amawhe Earl J 14th
 Guinea Courbé Courbé Exploss 15th
 South Sudan Party Time Samse Sam 16th
 Republic of the Congo Peine et Tristesse Emma Feron 17th
 Ethiopia Almeshem Pamfalon 18th
 Tanzania Africa Let Us Celebrate Zamangwa 19th

Participating Countries

The participating countries were revealed on the AfriMusic Song Contest's Facebook page. 42 countries took part. This is including USA, who had to find African artists to perform their songs.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Process". AfriMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "How This Works". AfriMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Symphony In a League of Her Own". gcwala99.com. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "ESCKAZ.com / ESCCovers.com / Euroforum / Eurovision South Africa". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "ESCKAZ.com / ESCCovers.com / Euroforum / Eurovision South Africa". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Entry Rules". AfriMusic. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
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