Close friends and comedians Chipukeezy and Eric Omondi are set to battle it out at the Africa Entertainment Awards USA.
The two have been nominated in the category of ‘Best Comedian’ alongside comedy greats like Nigeria’s Basketmouth and Uganda’s Patrick Salvador.
Other Kenyan nominees include Victoria Kimani for the ‘Female Artist of the Year’ category. Victoria is up against Tiwa Savage, Simi, Selmor Mtukudzi, Akothee, Vanessa Mdee, Chidinma, Nandy and Yemi Alade.
Victoria Kimani gets another nod in the ‘Best Female Single’ category for her 2017 single China Love alongside Vanessa Mdee’s Wet, Chidinma’s Yanga, Yemi Alade’s Bum Bum and Seyi Shay’s Your Matter.
Kenya makes another appearance in the ‘Best DJ’ category with DJ Crème alongside Dj Kassava, Dj Maphorisa, Dj Tunez and Dj Chick.
Sauti Sol also bagged a nomination in the ‘Best Collabo’ category for their song Melanin with Patoranking. The song will be up against Diamond Platnumz/ Omarion’s African Beauty, Nasty C & Runtown’s Said and Major Lazer & DJ Maphorisa’s – Particula (ft. Nasty C, Ice Prince, Patoranking & Jidenna).
The awards, launched in 2015, aim to support, celebrate, promote, and uplift the achievements of African musician in the continent and the diaspora.
“We use entertainment as a platform to showcase an Africa that is united, self-sufficient, and willing and able to evoke social change that matters most in the communities of Africans and Africans in the Diaspora world-wid,” reads a statement on the awards’s website.