Africa Day: Music superstars support AU, AFRIMA

by Duke Magazine

The commemoration of the 2020 Africa Day organized by the African Union, AU in collaboration with the organizers of All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA was held amid a great delight on Monday, featuring a virtual live support concert for the African Union COVID-19 Response Fund.

There was a live broadcast of the concert via multiple electronic and digital media channels in Africa with a theme: “Health Security in the Context of COVID-19” and featured intriguing and inspiring live performances from over 20 notable African music stars. The event also communicated motivating messages to viewers using the tag #StrongerTogether #StrongerthanCovid

The virtual concert commenced with the official anthem of the African Union, with subsequent addresses by the African Union Chairperson, His Excellency, Moussa Faki Mahamat, Commissioner for Social Affairs, African Union Commission, Her Excellency, Mrs. Amira El Fadil, during which they solicited for financial and kind support to the Africa COVID-19 Response Fund to assist the AU’s fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Other key speakers at the event included the Director, Africa Centre for Disease Control, Dr. John Nkengasong; the President and Executive Producer of All Africa Music Awards, AFRIMA, Mike Dada;  and the African Union Youth Envoy, Ms. Aya Chebbi who respectively reiterated the merit of collective action and donations to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.

The pitches of the solidarity concert were captured with the parade of various performances by the different music superstars that harnessed their influence and prowess to stage support for the African Union and AFRIMA.

 The carefully curated concert that reinforced the pan-Atlantic diversity of the Africa’s music with a blend of mellow showcasing, mid tempo and high-pitched performances. In the order of live performance from their respective locations were: Rudeboy (Nigeria); Pape Diouf (Senegal); Becca (Ghana); Salatiel (Cameroon); Nikita Kering (Kenya); Toofan (Togo); Salif Keita (Mali); Aminux (Morocco); Hiro (DRC); DJ Moh Green (Algeria); Kanvee Adams (Liberia); Daphne (Cameroon); Lizha James (Mozambique): Nadya Shanab (Egypt); Busiswa (South Africa); DJ Spinall (Nigeria); Naiboi (Kenya); Sarkodie (Ghana); 2Baba (Nigeria); Betty G (Ethiopia); Ahmed Soultan (Morocco) and Master KG (South Africa) who founded up Solidarity Concert with his hit single ‘Jerusalema’.

In his message after the concert, the International Advisor for AFRIMA, Mr. Rikki Stein, who watched the live stream from London, the United kingdom, said, “That was a beautiful show. I salute all concerned. Whether or not money was raised, the message was, more importantly, strongly and eloquently presented urging viewers to do everything possible and necessary to hopefully avoid another CoronaVirus related disaster or huge loss of lives anywhere on the Continent”.

The virtual concert had hosts of three of Africa’s exuberant entertainment personalities including, Eddie Kadi (Democratic Republic of Congo DRC); Chidinma Ekile (Nigeria) and Pamela ‘Miss P’ Happi (Cameroon).

The 2020 Africa Day #StrongerTogether solidarity concert was aimed at inspiring action with key messages on the prevention, protection and response measures to contain the ravaging coronavirus. The concert leveraged on the power of music and the relevance of African artistes in crusading for the containment of COVID-19 on the continent as well as strengthening solidarity for financial contributions to the Africa COVID-19 Response Fund.

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