Davido, Tiwa Savage,Flavour Win Six Africa Music Awards

8 JUNE 2014

Nigerian artists, Davido, Tiwa Savage, Flavour and video director Clarence Peters, won six MTV Africa Music Awards ,MAMA, on Saturday night at a ceremony held at the International Conference Centre, Durban, South Africa.

Davido received two of the biggest awards of the night: Artist of the Year and Best Male Artist of the Year.

Clarence Peters also won two awards: Transform Today by Absolut and Best Video of the Year for directing the video of Burna Boy's song, Run My Race.

Tiwa Savage got the Best Female Artist of the Year, while Flavour received the award of the Best Live Act.

The Nigerian entertainers won six awards out of the 18 categories available at the event, while South Africa followed with five awards.

Mafikizolo won the Best Group and Best Song of the Year while Gangs of Ballet got Best Alternative and Goldfish got Best Pop.

The song, Y-tjukutja, a collaboration between South African artists Uhuru, Oskido, DJ Bucks, Professor and Yuri Da Cunha of Angola won the award for Best Collaboration.

Other winners were Lupita Nyongo'o' (Kenya) who got the award of Personality of the Year; Stanley Enow (Cameroun) - Best New Act; Sarkodie (Ghana) - Best Hip Hop; and Toofan (Togo) - Best Fracophone.

Other winners were Anselmo Ralph (Angola) - Best Lusophone; Pharrell Williams (U.S.A) - Best International Act and Ashish J. Thakkar (Tanzania) won the MTV Base Leadership Award.

Nigeria's Davido, who spoke on the awards he received, said: "I am only 21-years-old and I am living my dream."

He thanked his producer, Shizzi, and everyone who voted for him and dedicated the award to Nigeria.

Clarence Peters thanked his mother, a Nollywood actress, Clarion Chukwura, and his Manager, Tobechukwu Ejiofor (Ill Bliss) and dedicated his awards to God and Nigeria.

Flavour thanked everyone, especially his band which made the live performance possible, while Tiwa Savage who danced onstage with her husband, Tee Billz, thanked her fans and Don Jazzy, her producer.