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The Future Awards Africa 2020 to air this Saturday on Africa Magic, MTV Base and Popcentral TV | Toke Makinwa and Sammy Walsh unveiled as hosts

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The Central Working Committee of The Future Festival has announced that its 15th edition of The Future Awards Africa will hold on Saturday 28 November, 2020 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm on Africa Magic, MTV Base, and Popcentral TV.   The Future Awards Africa will be celebrating extraordinary young people across the continent for their display of courage, innovation, talent, commitment and hard work in shaping their communities and societies, especially in the last one year.  "It is our pleasure to have media personalities Toke Makinwa and Sammy Walsh co-host our first-ever virtual awards, as we bring to your screens, exceptional young people who have thrived brilliantly despite the challenges of this year. We believe that many will find inspiration in the stories of those we would be celebrating," said Bukunyi Olateru-Olagbegi, Chairman, Central Working Committee.  “This is one of the first TV & Digital awards across the continent this year and certainly the first in the Nigerian

IS BURNABOY IN SELF-DESTRUCT MODE?

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On Wednesday, February the 13th, 2020, self-acclaimed African Giant Burna Boy took to social media to declare himself the best, as better than not just artistes of this current era, but since Fela Kuti, placing himself in higher regard than a very long list of respected and successful musicians. And then when a fan remarked that it was others that paved the way for him, Burna Boy responded by shading Nigerian artistes that had made grounds overseas before him, who obviously include Psquare, Davido, and Wizkid, by saying that they had made us look weak by begging and paying the western world to like them. As expected outrage from fans followed, and then a couple of days later Burna Boy again took to twitter to properly explain himself openly declaring that nobody outside Afrobeat legend, the late Fela Anikulapo Kuti or his family can say that they paved the way for him. It is a bold declaration, one that he has since deleted from his Twitter timeline, but was he right about the facts th