ON Saturday November 29 at Nasrec Expo Centre in Soweto the premier African music video awards will be held ekasi where the people are.
Sadly there is not a single Zimbo artist up for nomination at the awards while they jostle for the crowded and rigged local showbiz stage! Imagine all the local hullabaloo and intense exposure of the likes of Winky D and his dancehall cohorts!
Zilch is the word to describe the dismal no-show of Zimbo artistes and video producers on the international stage. Wake up every body. . .
Voting There is no fairy godmother coming your way with a magic wand. Time you realise. . . So far, it’s mainly a Mzansi and naija affair in the Afro-showbiz universe.
May the following partial list shore you up! Voting for the awards is free and takes place via www.channelo.tv and WeChat. Voters are allowed to vote up to 100 times on both platforms. Voting will start on Thursday at 7pm and close on November 23 at midnight.
Full list of nominees: Most gifted male Cassper Nyovest — Doc Shebeleza
Davido — Aye
Riky Rick featuring Okmalumkoolkat — Amantombazane
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KO featuring Kid X — Caracara
Sarkodie — Illuminati
Most gifted female Thembi Seete — Thuntsha Lerole
Bucie featuring Heavy K – Easy To Love
Lizha James featuring Uhuru — Quem Ti Mandou
Tiwa Savage featuring Don Jazzy — Eminado
Seyi Shay — Irawo
Most gifted newcomer Dream Team featuring Tamarsha, aka and Big Nuz — Tsekede
Cassper Nyovest — Doc Shebeleza
Emmy Gee featuring AB Crazy and DJ Dimplez — Rands and Nairas
Diamond — Number One
Patoranking — Girlie O (Remix)
Most gifted duo/group or featuring artist Uhuru featuring Oskido and Professor — Y-Tjukutja
DJ Clock featuring Beatenberg —Pluto (I Remember)
R2Bees featuring Wizkid — Slow Down
K.O featuring Kid X — Caracara
KCee featuring Wizkid — Pull Over
Most gifted dance Uhuru featuring Oskido and Professor — Y-Tjukutja
Davido — Skelewu
DJ Clock featuring Beatenberg — Pluto (I Remember)
P-Square — Personally
Busiswa featuring various artists — Ngoku
Most gifted ragga dancehall Buffalo Souljah — Basawine
Orezi — Rihanna
Jesse Jaggz featuring Wizkid — Bad Girl
Patoranking — Girlie O (Remix)
Shatta Wale — Everybody Likes My Ting
Most gifted Afro-pop Davido — Aye
Mafikizolo featuring May D — Happiness
Diamond — Number One
Flavour — Ada Ada
Iyanya — Jombolo
Most gifted kwaito Uhuru featuring Oskido and Professor — Y-Tjukutja
Character featuring Mono T and Oskido — Inxeba Lendoda
Big Nuz featuring Khaya Mthethwa — Incwadi Yothando
DJ Vetkuk VS Mahoota — Khaba Lenja
DJ Cndo — Yamnandi Into
Most gifted R&B 2Face featuring T-Pain — Rainbow
Jimmy Nevis featuring Kwesta — Balloon
GB Collective featuring Brian Temba and Reason — Chocolate Vanilla
Donald — Crazy But Amazing
Niyola — Toh Bad
Most gifted hip-hop Cassper Nyovest — Doc Shebeleza
Khuli Chana featuring DA L.E.S and Magesh — Hape Le Hape 2.1
Phyno — Alobam
K.O featuring Kid X — Caracara
aka — Congratulate
Most gifted southern artist DJ Clock featuring Beatenberg — Pluto (I Remember)
Cassper Nyovest — Doc Shebeleza 
aka — Congratulate
Zeus — Psych
K.O featuring Kid X — Caracara
Most gifted video of the year Emmy Gee featuring AB Crazy and DJ Dimplez — Rands and Nairas
Davido — Aye
K.O featuring Kid X — Caracara
Burna Boy — Run My Race
Tiwa Savage featuring Don Jazzy — Eminado
Dr Sid featuring Don Jazzy — Surulere
Riky Rick featuring Okmalumkoolkat — Amantombazane
Cassper Nyovest — Doc Shebeleza
Sarkodie — Illuminati
DJ Clock featuring Beatenberg —Pluto (I Remember)
aka — Congratulate
Diamond — Number One
Bulawayo musicians wake-up call and consolation Serious local artists suffering from lack of local exposure can now take on the bigger stage of African music and prove that they have the substance to make the grade.
Here is the opportunity for serious artists and video producers to deliver their masterpieces to the annual showcase in time for adjudication.
Please note the following requirements for submission to Channel O: *Video must be on Beta cam tape, MOV, Quicktime or Mini DV-Dolby ON.
*Include the artist’s biography and publicity pictures, artists contact details (including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook handles) and a signed release form, which can be faxed to +27788 116 866 159 if residing outside of South Africa.
*Good video production — to be decided by Channel O if the video meets all the requirements.
*Please note that the video submission is not automatically for entry into the Music Video Awards, but the video will be played on Channel O if it meets the above requirements.
You can download the form on the Channel O website under submissions.
Mail the videos to: ATT: Music Scheduler
Channel O Original African
137 Bram Fisher Drive Randburg 2194 RSA
Inside track: Book Launch today First up will be a book launch and round table discussion on a forthcoming book edited by scholar Richard Mahomva and one Simbarashe Moyo entitled African Nationalism and the Struggle for Continuity today at the Bulawayo Public Library from 4.30pm.
Book exhibition Readings at the American Corner Library by the National Public Library tomorrow from 9am to 1pm. Featured writers are the celebrated authors, the late Dr Yvonne Vera and Kenya literary giant Ngugi waThiongo.
There will also be a Pan-African Symposium featuring Suhle Nyathi from Lupane State University and Brian Hones from Nust from 3pm to 5.30pm. The functions are being organised by an organisation called Leaders For Africa Network.
Music: Abigail Mweembe live DVD launch A Tonga gospel singer comes out tomorrow at the Bulawayo Theatre to record her first live DVD recording. If she delivers, this would be the first time a local artist has really done it.
Others such as Vocal Ex have threatened, but we are still waiting. Mweembe is one of those resilient artistes and may heaven smile on her tomorrow and lead droves to witness her dream.
Comedian Clive Chigubu returns Chigubu, having escaped the very jaws of death, is back on the showbiz scene after a close call with death.
There was a proverbial bullet with his name on it in the last few months and notable absences from events such as Shoko and Intwasa festivals by Zimbabwe’s top funny man had tongues wagging.
Thankfully, the cherub-faced young comedy prince is on the recovery path after a brush with meningitis. I am sure Chigubu got love from friends who stuck by him. I am also sure he realised who doesn’t love you when you are down. Moral? Do what you must do because life is just too fragile and death “don’t” care about your dreams.
Parting shot: Local artistes must pay the required price. Nothing comes easy and the sooner artistes realise they simply have to climb every wall, the better for us all. We do not front the cause of cry babies.
We push excellence and tackle unfair trade practices where we find them. My raison d’être is informed by the fact that I am as much a communicator as I am an artist at the very core of me. When I write, I am at the same time an insider as well as an outsider in the realm of the arts and culture.
I use my pen to build. If you follow the arch of my writing, you will find that I lean toward the constructive way. This does not imply that I will compromise the integrity of my insights at the altar of correctness.
Peace.
