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