Consistent with its dedication to promote african music the world over, via eductional actions most notably, for and by the very actors in the industry themselves, the Academy is to organize its own awards, granted peer-to-peer in each category, based on a primary designation stemming from local professional organisations.

The primary “laureates” are therefore designated, non as the “best” in each category, but rather as people the associations freely wish to see embody the category, for their own and subjective reasons.