{"id":454804,"date":"2018-01-13T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/13\/davido-wins-best-african-act-at-mtv-emas\/"},"modified":"2018-01-13T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T09:30:21","slug":"davido-wins-best-african-act-at-mtv-emas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/13\/davido-wins-best-african-act-at-mtv-emas\/","title":{"rendered":"Davido wins &#8216;Best African Act&#8217; at MTV EMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Saturday, 13 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>okayafrica.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/58977811.295.jpg\" alt=\"Shortman Davido Mvp \" title=\"Shortman Davido Mvp \" width=\"295\" height=\"148\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Najia music star, Davido won &#8220;Best African Act&#8221; at the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515835821_637_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">This past weekend was full of awards shows and some of our favourite African acts took home some major trophies.<\/p>\n<p>Najia music star, Davido won &#8220;Best African Act&#8221; at the 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards, beating out Wizkid, Nasty C, and more to claim the title. He wasn&#8217;t there to accept his award, but the artists shared his excitement about the win on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Just moments ago, Davido shared on Twitter that he also won the Best Worldwide Act at the EMAs. The artists are having a very successful year to say the least. Congrats to him!<\/p>\n<p>Davido isn&#8217;t the only afrobeats star who had a fruitful awards season, Wizkid took home three awards during this year&#8217;s All Africa Music Awards in Lagos, hosted by the one and only Akon. He snagged the Best West African Artist of the year award, Song of the Year and Artist of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Our new digital music service, Okaymusic, took home two awards with Nigerian star and Okaymusic signee 2Baba winning for Best Artist or Group in African Reggae &amp; Dancehall and Cameroon&#8217;s Montess winning Best Female Artist in Central Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Tiwa Savage won Best West African Act (Female) and Simi took home Best Songwriter of the Year<\/p>\n<p>See the full list of winners below.<\/p>\n<p>Best Central African Act (Male) \u2013 Locko<\/p>\n<p>Best Central African Act (Female) \u2013 Montess<\/p>\n<p>Best East African Act (Male) \u2013 Eddy Kenzo<\/p>\n<p>Best East African Act (Female) \u2013 Nandy<\/p>\n<p>Best Southern Africa Act (Male) \u2013 Emtee<\/p>\n<p>Best West African Act (Male) \u2013 Wizkid<\/p>\n<p>Best West African Act (Female) \u2013 Tiwa Savage<\/p>\n<p>Best African Collaboration \u2013 Alikiba feat M.I \u2013 &#8220;AJE&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best Artist in African Rock \u2013 Gilad Millo (Kenya)<\/p>\n<p>Best Artist or Group in African RnB &amp; Soul \u2013 Alikiba feat. M.I \u2013 &#8220;AJE&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best Artist or Group in African Contemporary: DJ Tunez feat. Wande Coal \u2013 &#8220;Iskaba&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best Artist or Group in African Raggae &amp; Dancehall \u2013 2Baba \u2013 &#8220;Holy Holy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best Artist or Group in African Hip Hop \u2013 Ycee \u2013 &#8220;Juice&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best Artist of Group in African Pop \u2013 Toofan<\/p>\n<p>Video of the Year \u2013 Orezi x Adasa Cookey \u2013 &#8220;Cooking Pot&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best Female Artist in Inspirational Music: Asikey George<\/p>\n<p>African Songwriter of the Year \u2013 Simi<\/p>\n<p>Producer of the Year \u2013 DJ Coublon for Seyi Shay&#8217;s &#8220;Yolo Yolo&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Artist of the Year \u2013 Wizkid<\/p>\n<p>Song of the Year \u2013 Wizkid feat. 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