Burkina Faso is offering us the first photograph of a trophy remittance. On the left, in costume, San Remy Traoré (Producer), and on the right Petit Jeano (Arranger), both regional laureates for West Africa, surrounding Kys, the AMA national delegate. A page of history is being written.

After a short hiatus due to logistical and production glitches, the first AMA Awards trophies are now being sent out for presentation across the continent and around the world. As planned, the professional organisations are scheduling the ceremonies around their winners' schedules. All winners...

The Academy is thrilled to announce new partnership with the African Music Library (AML), a data-based documentation and preservation organisation which, just like the Academy, aims at working with music makers, engineers, historians and anthropologists. Links towards the AML website have already...

The very first welcome meeting took place on 3 July via Zoom. This informal meeting lasted almost two hours, with up to 35 participants: laureates, delegates and professional organisations, from continental Africa and the diaspora. Despite the lack of simultaneous translation, it was a thrill to...

Closing the TV5 Monde's "Journal Afrique" on 20 June, Wally Badarou presents the AMA, its origins, ambitions and first awards, and announces their overall results: https://bitly.cx/iJYGP

Finally, we have the names of the 6 global winners from the online voting at regional level. The winners are listed on https://africanmusicacademy.org/en/prize-list-2024 : • Angell MUTONI, Rwanda, in the authors category, • Thasi PONDA, Dem. Rep. of Congo, in the composers category, • Petit...

For this first edition, 72 national winners were designated on 31 March, and are already de facto members of the Academy. They in turn recently elected the regional laureates. The list is published on this site since May 15 this week: https://africanmusicacademy.org/en/prize-list-2024 . Now...

The Academy is about to be receiving the designation of its first national laureates