Ghana's High Life Artiste Of The Year, Bisa Kdei joins Sarkodie, R2Bees, SP Kofi Sarpong, Kofi Kinaata, Kaywa, Samini, Shatta Wale Efya, MzVee, Sonnie Badu, Mr. Eazi and Stonebwoy in this year's AFRIMMA awards.
Bisa Kdei has been nominated under three (3) categories;
Best Male West Africa,
AFRIMMA Video of The Year - Brother Brother
Song of The Year - Mansa
Congratulations to Bisa Kdei and all the nominees. Every one in the list is a winner, Ghana deserves these awards.
Hold up, why is E.L getting missed in almost all Diaspora awards after his VGMA crown?
Most
at times, when an artiste is given the ultimate award at the Vodafone
Ghana Music Awards, that artiste is supposed to be receiving
international gigs, which include nominations outside Ghana. The most
commonest among these nominations is the Black Entertainment Awards (BET).
The
reflection of VGMA Artiste Of The Year on winner of the African Act at
the BET has been so conspicuous and predictable by Ghanaians to the
extent that, most people think and still believe, organizers of the VGMA
award, Charter House and BET are in some kind-of-relationship.
The
moment E.L won the ultimate award, we were all expecting him to be
crowned at the BET too but Ghanaians were shocked to see his name not
even part of the list. Something which brought a lot of wow in our minds.
Not
ending there, organizers of the Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA)
released their list of nominees and there again, E.L wasnt part of the
list. Then, we started thinking - something isnt well.
Few
hours ago, AFRIMMA also released their list of nominees and again, E.L
is not in the list. However, the High Life artiste, Bisa Kdei, whom
citizens of the world were expecting to take the ultimate crown but was
"cheated" is rather making entries into these international awards.
What does it tell? Does it mean the brand Bisa Kdei is more popular than E.L internationally? That we no for a fact since Brother Brother and Mansa
conjured magic last year than any other music in Ghana. Also, does it
mean, these international bodies know the Ghanaian industry than our own
people, who swerved the rightful Artiste Of The Year? This and so many
unthinkable questions in mind. But, as comic actor, Kwadwo Nkansah Liwin
will say, we cant think far on this.
By Bossu Kule
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