East Africa’s fast-rising singer and songwriter, Christopher Muneza (from Rwanda) has made the list of the 20 top nominees for this year’s Kora Awards. The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on 2nd December 2014 in Ivory Coast. Kora Awards are music awards given for musical achievement in sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 1994 by Ernest Adjovi, the awards are named after the Kora, an important West African plucked chordophone. Muneza says a lot of fans appreciate his works and it is there votes that made it possible for him to get nominated for this year’s kora awards. Muneza is working hard to promote Rwandan and East African music in general.

This year’s Kora awards event has offered fans across Africa the chance to vote for their favourite artistes as the final countdown for the Kora Awards 2014 begins.

Christopher is well known by his fans in East Africa and he is a Salax award-winning artiste and a contestant in this year’s Primus Guma Guma Superstar talent music competition. Some of his popular songs include Iri Joro, Habona and Ndabyemeye, among others.

Muneza has been placed in the same category with Diamond from Tanzania, Ethiopian artistes Teddy Afro, Aster Aweke and Amr Diab and Wahu Kagwi of Kenya.

Other nominees are Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), Viviane Chidid (Senegal), Cheb Khaled (Algeria), Omawumi [Nigeria] Mafikizolo and Zahara [South Africa] Sarkodie [Ghana], Koffi Olomide and Fally Ipupa (DR Congo), and DJ Arafat (Ivory Coast) and four other African music artistes made the Top 20 list.

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