Author Topic: 2face and Dbanj win BET Award for Best International Act (Africa) – tokenism? (Read 2402 times)

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Nigeria’s 2face Idibia and Dbanj tied for the BET Award for Best International Act (Africa) at ceremony held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Sunday night. It didn’t come as a surprise as the two were clear favourites for the nod. But perhaps it should have been more competitive with only one winner instead of the two. It makes the African category come out as mere tokenism to keep us happy. Although this was the second time that African artists have been nominated in the BET Awards, this year saw a separate category for the African acts which also included D-Black (Ghana), Fally Ipupa (DR Congo), Angelique Kidjo (Benin), and Teargas (South Africa).

Meanwhile R&B superstar Chris Brown garnered three trophies out of his pack-leading six nominations. There was a mix-up during the announcement of the Viewer’s Choice winner as Tiffany Greene first named Brown as the winner before then saying Drake and Rihanna were the victors [With Drake accepting the trophy] it was later confirmed that Chris Brown was indeed the winner of the fan voted accolade.

Kevin Hart hosted the annual BET event with featuring performances by top acts such as Beyonce Knowles, Drake, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne and Mary J Blige, among many others. There were also special tributes to Steve Harvey as the Humanitarian Award Honoree and Patti LaBelle as the Life Achievement Award winner.

Here is full list of winners:

Female R&B artist: Rihanna
Male R&B artist: Chris Brown
Female hip-hop artist: Nicki Minaj
Male hip-hop artist: Kanye West
Collaboration: Chris Brown, “Look At Me Now,” feat. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes
New artist: Wiz Khalifa
Group: Diddy Dirty Money
Young Stars award: (tie) Jaden Smith and Willow Smith
Gospel: Mary Mary
Centric award: Marsha Ambrosius
Actress: Taraji P. Henson
Actor: Idris Elba
Movie: “For Colored Girls”
Sportsman of the year: Michael Vick
Sportswoman of the year: Serena Williams
International act, UK: Tinie Tempah
International act, Africa: (tie) 2Face Idibia and D’Banj
Video director of the year: Chris Robinson
Viewers’ choice: Chris Brown, “Look At Me Now”

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I personally dont care about a BET award, it doesnt hold any weight in the music industry... read this headline from Reuters pretty racist .... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110627/music_nm/us_bet

Cokoye · « **on:** »

Webm · « **Reply #1 on:** »

Well, I think in my opinion 2face and Dbanj deserve the award.

Cokoye · « **Reply #1 on:** »

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