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MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) calendar, categories, and eligibility

Nominees for the MAMAs are chosen as follows

All artists whose videos have been played on MTV base in previous 12 months are eligible (this amounts to several hundred artists from all over the continent)

MTV sends a list of all artists (see the pages of some of the artistes who will get nominated eventually listed on Museke.com) who are eligible to members of a voting 'academy' across Africa to ask them to vote for their favourite artists/tracks/videos etc. These votes are collated and feed into the nominations short list per category (5 nominees per category)

The nominations are released on or around 7 October and consumers make the final decision in all voting categories; voting closes on 18 November.

There will be 13 separate music award categories including

1. ARTIST OF THE YEAR
2. BEST MALE
3. BEST FEMALE
4. BEST GROUP
5. BEST NEW ACT
6. BEST ALTERNATIVE *
7. BEST HIP-HOP *
8. BEST R&B *
9. VIDEO OF THE YEAR
10. BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE
11. MAMA LEGEND AWARD
12. MY VIDEO AWARD
13. LISTENERS CHOICE AWARD…

* Categories that include both international and African artists.

The “Listeners Choice” Award will be decided by radio listeners across Africa.
All categories are open to African artists except the My Video Award which be awarded for a viewer created video. The Best Alternative, Best Hip-hop and Best R&B categories are open to international artists as well as African artists.