Abuja Africafriend
Country that represents: Nigeria
Gender: Female
Birthday: May 29
Eurovision land counterpart friend: Prague Eurofriend
Abuja is an expert linguistic Africafriend who believes that every language spoken in the entire Song Contest is unique how it sounds and that connects hearts alike on everyfriend she meets.
Like her Eurovision Land counterpart Prague Eurofriend she adds the phrase “Which translates to…”, but she adds “…That’s the meaning of the situation!” to every moment and adds a deep meaning to words other friends can’t.
This AfrimusicVille girl is not afraid to learn new words and finding their meanings. Even she spends her time reviving extinct languages and share it to the new generations of Friends.
Johannesburg Africafriend
Country that represents: South Africa
Gender: Male
Birthday: April 27
Eurovision land counterpart friend: London Eurofriend
Johannesburg is the most famous Africafriend in town and unofficial leader of the pack. He’s a revolutionary friend who lives his dreams with courage and making a change for AfrimusicVille. And whoa, friend! That’s right!
And one of those dreams is bringing all his fellow Africafriend companions together to share their songs through an African counterpart of the Eurovision Song Contest and it’s music! London and all the other Eurofriends are his heroes, he says!
A true leader and fan who encourages everyfriend in AfrimusicVille to follow their dreams and climbing every mountain with success! Even his own music shoppe is full of dreams turned song.
We just got the latest update and a staggering 39 of the 54 countries have registered for the first Afri music song contest. Can we even surpass the 42 that Eurovision gave us in 2017?
Here are the list of 39 countries who have now registered and there are still almost a month to register. Register closes on 3 October.
01 – Algeria
02 – Angola
03 – Benin
04 – Botswana
05 – Burundi
06 – Cameroon
07 – Central African Republic
08 – Chad
09 – Cote d’ Ivoire
10 – Democratic Republic of Congo
11 – Egypt
12 – Ethopia
13 – Gabon
14 – Ghana
15 – Guinea-Bissau
16 – Kenya
17 – Lesotho
18 – Liberia
19 – Libya
20 – Madagaskar
21 – Malawi
22 – Morocco
23 – Mozambique
24 – Nigeria
25 – Namibia
26 – Republic of Congo
27 – Rwanda
28 – Senegal
29 – Sierra Leone
30 – Somalia
31 – South Africa
32 – South Sudan
33 – Sudan
34 – Tanzania
35 – Togo
36 – Tunisia
37 – Uganda
38 – Zambia
39 – Zimbabwe
A facebook page THE FANS OF EUROVISION created some wonderful postcards for the AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST. We are delighted with this and have started sharing some of them with you. Here is the third one – DJIBOUTI.
The 6th and last in our promo single comparison between those received in Kyiv and those designed in Johannesburg. It is IMRI from Israel and his song I FEEL ALIVE.
The 5th promo single in our series of 6 is from the 2017 ROMANIA. It is called YODEL IT and is sung by Ilinca & Alex Florea. This song was quite a surprise.
A facebook page THE FANS OF EUROVISION created some wonderful postcards for the AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST. We are delighted with this and have started sharing some of them with you. Here is the second one – SOUTH AFRICA.
A facebook page THE FANS OF EUROVISION created some wonderful postcards for the AFRI MUSIC SONG CONTEST. We are delighted with this and will share some of them with you over the next days. Here is the first one – BOTSWANA
Next up in our series to introduce you to some of the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afri music song contest is SUZANNE RENTZKE. There is a full CD available by her on Itunes are it is called VIR JOU (for you) and you can write to Suzanne at info@suzannerentzke.co.za for more information. Suzanne has covered one Eurovision song in the past – ISRAEL 2002 – Light a candle by Sarit Hadad. Suzanne calls her Afrikaans cover LAAT JOU LIG SKYN (let you light shine).
The 4th promo single in our series of 6 is from the 2017 Moldova entry HEY MAMMA by SUNSTROKE PROJECT. Euro fans, who were on the weekend’s cruise between Helsinki and Tallinn, would have seem them perform.
