Diamond Platnumz and Charlotte Dipanda win big at 2015 AFRIMA

Tanzania's Diamond Platnumz was the enormous victor at the 2015 All Africa Music Awards, held 15 November at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos, Nigeria. The vocalist, who additionally won at the MTV Africa Music Awards not long ago, grabbed three honors incorporating a win in the occasion's most prized class, Artist of the Year. Cameroon's Charlotte Dipanda won three honors too. She seemed staggered at her second honor for the night and by the declaration of her third had gone off to bed.

The occasion started minutes past 8pm, two or three hours behind its publicized timetable, and was tied down by DNG, 'East Africa's number 1 buildup man', and Ivorian on-screen character Aurelie Eliam. The team treated the group to a couple trades, DNG communicating in English and Eliam French. A couple endeavors at Nigerian pidgin evoked chuckles from the generally Lagos swarm. They seemed to savor an especially terrible articulation of a pidgin sentence by Eliam.

Cobhams Asuquo and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, first entertainers of the night, fared better. Their two part harmonies—Paul Simon's 'Jewel on the Soles of her Shoes' and a brief interpretation of LBM's 'Destitute'— ran well with the group. From that point Asuquo gave the men of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's a Lifetime Achievement Award. 'The recompense,' Asuquo said, was for the bunch's exertion at 'telling the African story really.' It was the night's opening grant.

Different grants took after, with Morocco clearing the Northern territorial classifications through Ahmed Soutan and Manal. The symmetry of the territorial prizes proceeded, as Cameroon through Stanley Enow and Dipanda took the Central African classes. 'Oh joy, I no come lagos come joke o,' Enow said. Nigeria's Olamide and Yemi Alade won for West Africa. Neither thought about their recompenses literally as Alade was missing and Olamide was backstage, probably in readiness for a later execution. South Africa's Busiswa and Cassper Nyovest won the Southern African provincial classes.

The vast majority of the night's entertainers were champs too. Enow did two melodies that has their roots in American hip-bounce. Busiswa's execution appeared to affirm a long standing truth: Every South African can move.

Exhibitions and recompenses went past as midnight moved closer. The Pillar of Culture Award was the night's most strange as its champ legislator and previous Lagos senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu continued for a few minutes giving a discourse that was of hazy significance to the night's procedures. In the event that anybody was disillusioned at the notice of his contributing just two society exercises—bringing Fela on Broadway, the musical to Lagos and Lagos' Eyo Festival—to justify the recompense they didn't demonstrat to it. Rather serenades of his epithet "Jagaban" leased the air.

The service found some conclusion with Diamond's twofold win in the general class taking Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for 'Nasema Nawe'. He performed a while later, his move moves very much planned and his co-artists exact. The group cheered. They spared the greatest cheers for Nigeria's Olamide. The Lagos gathering of people adores him so much he led a few lines from his collection peacefully, viewing the group of onlookers mouth words to his music.

The finishing up bit of the close to 4-hour grant service then turned into a story of two men. Olamide got the adoration. Jewel Platnumz got the