Mandela, Michael Jackson to attend Kora music awards ceremony
Johannesburg - Former president Nelson Mandela and pop star Michael Jackson will
be among the guests of honour at this year's Kora All Africa Music Awards at the
Sun City superbowl in the North West on Saturday. Executive producer of Kora All
Africa Music Awards Ernest Adjovi on Sunday said: "I am honoured and elated that
the Kora Awards has the opportunity to host two persons of such immense stature
in their respective lives. "It can only add to the already multi-talented Africans
of all hues who are attending and participating in this year's awards ceremony."
Mandela would attend the ceremony in his capacity as the patron of the Nelson
Mandela Children's Fund, to whom Jackson would hand over a cheque. Adjovi said
the ceremony would be held under the patronage of Namibian premier Hage Geingob.
It is the fourth year that the awards were being held. The awards, which celebrate
African music and culture across the globe, would be broadcast to more than 350
million viewers in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. Several top musicians
would perform at the event including Patience Dabany of Gabon, Femi Kuti, O'Renschi
of Ivory Coast, Kadja Nin of Burundi, Musical group Bisso Na Bisso of the Democratic
Republic of Congo, as well as South Africa's Brenda Fassie.