K'Naan Wins Best African Act at the MOBO Awards!

Somalian Rapper/Singer K'Naan won the award for Best African Artist at the Mobo 2010 awards which was held in Liverpool, England. The show was hosted earlier today by Radio 1's Reggie Yates and Mis-Teeq's Alesha Dixon. Jamaican Artist Gyptian also picked up the award for Best Reggae Artist while Billy Ocean was awarded a lifetime achievement award. Congratulations to all the winners!

Full list of MOBO 2010 Winners:

Best Newcomer - Tinie Tempah

Best UK R&B / Soul Act - Plan B

Best UK Hip Hop / Grime Act - Professor Green

Best International Act - Eminem

Best Reggae Act - Gyptian

Best Album - JLS, 'JLS'

Best Video in association with MTV Base - Tinie Tempah ft Labrinth - Frisky

Best UK Act in association with Lebara Mobile - JLS

Best Song in association with PRSforMusic - NDubz FEAT. Mr Hudson ' Playing with Fire

Best African Act - K'Naan

Best Jazz Act - Empirical

Best Gospel Act - Guvna B

Lifetime Achievement - Billy Ocean

BeMOBO - Merseyside Dance Initiative

Nigerian Entertainment Awards in NY

The Nigerian entertainment awards 2010 takes place later today in New York City. Watch this space for details and pictures. 

MOBO AWARDS 2010

15 African artists have been nominated for the Mobo Best African awards, the category is voted for by the public and the 10 artist with the lowest number of votes will be eliminated will the top 5 will be the official nominees for the award. 


K’Naan (Somalia)
P-Square (Nigeria)
Hip Hop Pantsula (South Africa)
JJC (Nigeria)
Banky W. (Nigeria)
Concha Buika 
(Equatorial Guinea) 
Mulatu Astatke (Ethiopia)
 Wanlov the Kubolor (Ghana)
Angélique Kidjo(Benin)
M3NSA (Ghana)
Yuri Da Cunha (Angola)
Tinny (Ghana)
Waldemar Bastos (Angola)
Staff Benda Bilili (Congo-Kinshasa)
BLK JKS (South Africa)


Go online to http://www.mobo.com/voting/2010/best-african-act-0 to vote for your favourite.