Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has become the first Nigerian female artiste to win the MTV Europe Music Awards in the Best African Act category. The Afro-pop singer snatched the record-breaking award at the 2018 MTV EMAs held on Sunday at the Bilbao Exhibition Center, Bilbao, Spain which had several music stars across the world in attendance.
The African
act category, in 2005, was infused into the MTV EMA to enhance musical
alliances across borders and promote cultural integrations. Until Tiwa’s win,
three Nigerians have won the award including 2Baba in 2005, D’banj in 2007 and
2012; and Davido in 2017.
In 2018, Tiwa was nominated alongside fellow Nigerian act,
David Adeleke, aka Davido; South Africa’s Distruction Boyz and Shekinah;
Kenya’s Nyashinski and Fally Ipupa from the DRC.
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