{"id":449977,"date":"2011-06-29T09:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/29\/2face-d%e2%80%99banj-win-the-best-international-act-africa-award-at-the-2011-bet-awards-%e2%80%93-photos\/"},"modified":"2011-06-29T09:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:14:38","slug":"2face-dbanj-win-the-best-international-act-africa-award-at-the-2011-bet-awards-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/2face-dbanj-win-the-best-international-act-africa-award-at-the-2011-bet-awards-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"2Face &#038; D\u2019banj win the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards \u2013 Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68.8492922565\">\n<div><em>On 29 Jun, 2011 In <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-movies.net\/blog\/?cat=7\" title=\"View all posts in Awards\" rel=\"category\">Awards<\/a> | | <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-movies.net\/blog\/?p=4950#comments\">No comments<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ed6a1004laNaija-006.jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ed6a1004laNaija-006.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BET-Awards-Winners-2011-June-2011-BellaNaija-006\" width=\"382\" height=\"594\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4955\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian nominees 2Face Idibia and D\u2019banj beat their counterparts from Ghana, South Africa, Congo DR and Benin to emerge as joint winners of the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards which took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California last night.<\/p>\n<p>Based on comments from BellaNaija.com readers; 2Face and D\u2019banj were the top contenders for the award and indeed predictions proved to be accurate.<\/p>\n<p>The awards were handed to the stars at the event; however, the Best International Act (Africa) award segment was not televised.<br \/>BN hopes that this segment is added to the televised portion of the ceremony next year. We are also looking forward to collaborative on-stage performances with African artistes alongside African-American acts at future events.<\/p>\n<p>In other BET Awards news, Tinie Tempah won the Best International Act (UK) award. Tinie Tempah\u2019s (Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu) parents are Nigerian and he recently performed at the 2011 ARISE Magazine Fashion Week in Lagos.<br \/>Congrats to the stars! We are proud of you.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-movies.net\/blog\/?p=4950\" title=\"2Face &amp; D\u2019banj win the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards \u2013 Photos\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2Face &amp; D\u2019banj win the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards \u2013 Photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> On 29 Jun, 2011 In Awards | | No comments Nigerian nominees 2Face Idibia and D\u2019banj beat their counterparts from Ghana, South Africa, Congo DR and Benin to emerge as joint winners of the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards which took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California last night. Based on comments from BellaNaija.com readers; 2Face and D\u2019banj were the top contenders for the award and indeed predictions proved to be accurate. The awards were handed to the stars at the event; however, the Best International Act (Africa) award segment was not televised. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":449978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-449977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2Face &amp; D\u2019banj win the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards \u2013 Photos - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/29\/2face-dbanj-win-the-best-international-act-africa-award-at-the-2011-bet-awards-photos\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"2Face &amp; D\u2019banj win the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards \u2013 Photos - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"On 29 Jun, 2011 In Awards | | No comments Nigerian nominees 2Face Idibia and D\u2019banj beat their counterparts from Ghana, South Africa, Congo DR and Benin to emerge as joint winners of the Best International Act (Africa) award at the 2011 BET Awards which took place at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California last night. 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