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<\/a><\/p>\nVictor Sila<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n There are several African nominees in the mix this year who we can honestly say truly deserve it.\u00a0 Gabourey Sidibe is having an astounding year with her first film, ‘Precious<\/em>‘, which brought many to tears as they experienced the horrors of abuse with her character.\u00a0 Sila and the Afrofunk Experience have been nominated for their song, ‘Black President’<\/em>, putting them in\u00a0a well-deserved limelight.\u00a0 Oumou Sangare’s song, Seya<\/em>, has also been nominated in the Outstanding World Music Album category.\u00a0<\/p>\n Farai Chideya, the African-American\/Zimbabwean author is nominated for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author for her novel, ‘Kiss the Sky: A Novel’<\/em>, which is currently on the Essence book list.<\/p>\n The complete list of African nominees are listed below:<\/p>\n Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture<\/strong> Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Outstanding World Music Album<\/strong> Congratulations to all of them. Win or lose, they are still projecting a positive image of The NAACP Image awards celebrate the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (motion picture, television, recording, and literature), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors. Victor Sila There are several African nominees in the mix this year who we can honestly say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Idris Elba \u2013 “Obsessed<\/em>” (Screen Gems)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Gabourey Sidibe \u2013 “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push<\/em>” by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)
\n– Sophie Okonedo \u2013 “Skin<\/em>” (Jour De Fete Films)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Chiwetel Ejiofor \u2013 “2012<\/em>” (Columbia Pictures)<\/p>\n
\n– “Black President<\/em>” \u2013 Sila and the Afrofunk Experience (Visila Records)
\n– “ReCreation<\/em>” \u2013 Zap Mama (Heads Up International\/Concord Music Group)
\n– “Seya<\/em>” \u2013 Oumou Sangare (Nonesuch\/World Circuit)
\nOutstanding Literary Work \u2013 Debut Author
\n– “Kiss the Sky: A Novel<\/em>” \u2013 Farai Chideya (Atria Books)<\/p>\n
\nAfricans and we applaud them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"