by Phil Chard

MTV Base Africa just held a lavish event at Emoyeni in Johannesburg where they made a number of announcements regarding this year’s MTV African Music Awards. However, they did not announce any of the nominees for the ceremony, so it was essentially an announcement that was announcing when the actual announcements would be announced.

Despite all that there was still a lot of valuable information shared at the event. We have managed to compress all of that information into a few bite sized factoids;

The 6th MTV Africa Music Awards will be held in Johannesburg 2016 at The Ticketpro Dome on 22 October 2016. This is their first time in Joburg.

Nominees will be competing over 17 different Award categories. Nominees for these categories will be revealed in September. The first batch of nominees will be announced in Johannesburg with a second nominee’s announcement to be held in Lagos, Nigeria.

The run up to the event will include Road to MAMA events featuring MAMA nominees to be held in Durban and Lagos. As well as a music industry workshop for aspiring musicians held on the day prior to the awards (21 October).

The MTV Africa Music Awards 2016 will broadcast live on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) and MTV (DStv Channel 130) on Saturday 22 October at 21:00 Other partner stations will start airing reruns after the event. There was no word on whether the event will be streamed, which would be a nice touch considering other Viacom events like the BET Awards are streamed live.

At the event it was also announced that Khuli Chana would be working on a collaborative album titled One Source in partnership with Absolut Vodka. The album will feature collaborations from across the continent.

This year’s #MTVMAMA2016 will be held at the TicketPro Dome in Joburg pic.twitter.com/XbFkCvBzE4

— African Hip Hop Blog (@AfricanHHB) August 23, 2016

@KhuliChana and Absolut partnering up on the release of his new album One Source. Khuli will be Exec Producer. #MTVMAMA2016

— African Hip Hop Blog (@AfricanHHB) August 23, 2016

Announcement of nominees will be done in two cities. Johannesburg and Lagos. #MTVMAMA2016

— African Hip Hop Blog (@AfricanHHB) August 23, 2016