The Afrima Awards 2023 end in Dakar with the coronation of Nigerian Burna Boy

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Nigerian artist Burna Boy during a concert in Philadelphia in September 2022. Getty Images via AFP - THEO WARGO

Text by: Juliette Dubois

At the end of four days of festivities, the Afrima awards, awards in African music, were awarded on January 15, 2023 in Dakar.

The Artist of the Year goes to Nigerian Burna Boy.

For its eighth edition, this is the first time that this flagship ceremony of the continent's music industry has taken place in a French-speaking capital.

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