March 17, (THEWILL) – This year’s edition of Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award ceremony will hold for eight days as opposed to the one day event that had been held in the past.
The award, which is in its eight year, was put on hold after the 2020 edition because of COVID-19 pandemic.
The event will start on Sunday, May 7, 2022 to Saturday, May 14, 2022.
According to the organisers, the award opening night will take place on May 7, 2022.
It will be followed by a runway show on May 8, 2022 in partnership with BellaNaija Style, tagged “Design For the Stars”. The runway show will feature a competition for budding fashion designers.
May 9 will be dedicated to Multichoice Talent Factory and it will include movie screening and panel discussion by the students of the MTF.
May 10 is for ‘Africa Magic Session with Content Creators’, where industry stakeholders and enthusiasts will be hosted to a special ‘Africa Magic Content Market Day.’
To make it an all encompassing show, May 11 has been tagged, ‘Pan African Food Festival and Cultural Day’; while May 12 will be solely for digital content creators’.
A special gala would be held on May 13 for award nominees; while the grand finale of the ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 14, 2022.
According to the Head of Content, Africa Magic, Busola Tejumola, $500million will be made available for the development of indigenous content in the course of five years.
The ‘Best Soundtrack’ category winner will also go home with 1million.
Actors Adesua Etomi-Wellington and Daniel Effiong will unveil the nominees on Saturday May, 19, 2022.
