The nominees of the competitive categories for the 6th EMY Africa Awards 2021 were announced at the official launch event on 31st July. The EMY Awards Faculty President in his speech encouraged people to vote for their favourite nominees as the voting lines have been officially opened. He furthered stated that the winners of the honorary award categories would be announced on the main awards night.
The EMY Awards Faculty also announced the introduction of new awards categories this year. What was hitherto, the Man of the Year – Entertainment Award has been broken down in to the following:
- Music Man of the Year
- Actor of the Year
- Creative and Support Arts Award
The nominees for this year’s competitive award categories are as follows:
- GIOVANI CALEB
- DAN KWEKU YEBOAH
- BERNARD AVLE
- NATHANIEL ATTOH
- FRANCIS ABBAN
Music Man of the Year Award
- STONEBWOY
- KIDI
- KUAMI EUGENE
- MR DREW
- KOFI KINATA
- KING PROMISE
Creative and Support Arts Award
- PRINCE KOJO HILTON
- GILBERT ASANTE
- DANCEGOD LLYOD
- TONY TOMETY
- FRANCIS BROWN
- KELVIN VINCENT
- NANA ASAASE (PHILIP BOAKYE DUA OYINKA)
Discovery of the Year
- WODE MAYA
- YAW TOGG
- KWABENA OFFEI-KWADEY NKRUMAH
- STEVE FRENCH
- THEODORE OHENE-BOTCHWAY
Man of the Year – Sports
- JONATHAN MENSAH
- BENJAMIN AZAMATI
- JOSEPH PAUL AMOAH
- VICTOR KOFI AMPOFO
Brand of the Year
- LAWEN TAYLOR
- ATTO TETTEH
- CAVEMAN WATCHES
- SKIN GOURMET
- BÖHTEN
Actor of the Year
- ADJETEY ANNAG
- MAWULI GAVOR
- AKROBETO AKWASI BOADI
- KOFI ADJORLOLO
- PRINCE DAVID OSEI
Designer of the Year
- MICHAEL AKOTUA ADDO (QUOPHI AKOTUAH)
- NANA ADU BOATENG (BLACK AND PHAMOUS)
- PRINCE SACKEY TAWIAH (TOE TALK)
- KOFI OKYERE DARKO (NINETEEN 57)
- OMONIYI MAKUN (YOMI CASUAL)
Young Achiever (Male)
- BABA SADIQ ABDULAI ABU
- FAROUK KHAILANN
- MR. EAZI
- RICHIE MENSAH
- SHADRACK O. FRIMPONG
Young Achiever (Female)
- ALBERTA NANA AKYAA AKOSA
- BERLA MUNDI
- DELORIS FRIMPONG MANSO (DELAY)
- GWYNETH GYIMAH ADDO
- JULIET BAWUAH
The following is how you can vote for your favourite nominee:
Visit www.emyafrica.com/vote , like the nominee’s post on EMY Africa Instagram page or text EMY plus name of preferred nominee and category to short code 1393.
Scoring will be 40 per cent for public and 60 percent technical made up of expert and faculty vote. This process will be managed and supervised by our event statisticians – EY Ghana.
EMY Africa Awards has also partnered with Fan Milk to present the “Business for Good Award”, an honorary award presented to an individual who operates a small business (micro & SME) and uses the business to make positive impact in the community.
This year’s Awards is sponsored and supported by:
Samsung – partnering the Man of the Year – Technology Award
A Rocha Ghana – partnering the Green Corporate Star Award
Lucozade – partnering the Man of the Year – Health
FanMilk – partnering the Business for Good Award
UNFPA – partnering the Woman of the Year Award
Letshego
Pruden
Samsung (partnering the Man of the Year – Technology Award)
A Rocha Ghana (partnering the Green Corporate Star Award)
Lucozade (partnering the Man of the Year – Health)
FanMilk (partnering the Business for Good Award)
UNFPA (partnering the Woman of the Year Award)
Letshego
Prudential Life Insurance
Silver Star Auto Limited
TV3
EY Ghana
DSTV (Akwaaba Magic)
MPedigree
Luuk Now
Rhythms Africa
Asuovo Security
Asaase Radio
Ghana Web
Pulse Ghana
Yen.com
EMY Africa Magazine
And other partner blogs
We are looking forward to beautiful night of celebration and honor at the main awards night of the 6th EMY Africa Awards 2021 in October
