Mohamed Salah, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Sadio Mane have been nominated for CAF’s African Player of the Year while Asisat Oshoala, Chrestina Kgatlana and Gabrielle Aboudi Onguene are vying for the Women’s Player of the Year.
Mohammed Salah was yesterday awarded the BBC African Footballer of the Year after being shortlisted for the first time.
Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo won a record-equalling fifth Ballon d’Or award for the year’s best player on Thursday.
2017 is the 12th year of the Nelson Mandela-Graça Machel Innovations Awards. Winners were selected from about 300 nominations. Khaled al-Balshy was one of the most notable winners.
For the first time since 1999, not a single white male artist or group has been nominated for the 60th annual Grammy’s Album of the Year category.
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters is Miss Universe 2017. She edged out Miss Colombia Laura González (first runner-up) and Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett (second runner-up) for the crown Sunday night in Las Vegas.
The Black Lives Movement has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, Australia’s International Prize for Peace. The award comes with a cash prize of $50,000 and recognises “the vital contributions of leading global peacemakers.” The Black Lives Matter movement has been “striving for justice every single day.”
The Kenyan Kalasha International Awards seeks to honour and represent the five original branches of Film making: Directors, Actors, Writers, Producers and Technicians but has since extended that to include even more related categories.
The 2017 Africa Muzik Magazine Awards & Music Festival (AFRIMMA) honours music greats Zimbabwe’s Dr Oliver Mtukudzi and Mali’s Salif Keita in its 4th edition and numerous other African artists.
Five African authors have been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. The award comes with a cash prize of €100,000. The shortlist will be announced in April 2018 and the winner will be announced on the 13th of June, 2018.
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