CULTURETECHLENSKORA Awards
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Combined Graph record U-01489 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-L-0016. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
KORA (KORA All Africa Music Awards) is a pan-African music awards scheme created in 1994 by Benin-born founder/president/executive producer Ernest Coovi Adjovi; produced/managed by Meridional ECA (Pty) Ltd until 1999, then KORA Entertainment Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd; honours musicians of African descent across Africa's regions and the diaspora (Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, America), per founder statements reported by ArtMatters.Info (tier-4 specialist arts press, fetched in full). Stored issuer 'KORA' and pan-African note stand. Defunct/intermittent: on hold after 2006, returned 2008; later editions sporadic (2010, 2012; planned 2016 Namibia edition never took place, per search-returned reporting).
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KORA (KORA All Africa Music Awards) is a pan-African music awards scheme created in 1994 by Benin-born founder/president/executive producer Ernest Coovi Adjovi; produced/managed by Meridional ECA (Pty) Ltd until 1999, then KORA Entertainment Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd; honours musicians of African descent across Africa's regions and the diaspora (Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, America), per founder statements reported by ArtMatters.Info (tier-4 specialist arts press, fetched in full). Stored issuer 'KORA' and pan-African note stand.
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- Also known as: KORA All Africa Music Awards
Sources
- https://artmatters.info/2008/09/23/kora-all-africa-music-awards-returns-with-a-us1000000-cash-prize/ (verification source · master store)
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KORA (KORA All Africa Music Awards) is a pan-African music awards scheme created in 1994 by Benin-born founder/president/executive producer Ernest Coovi Adjovi; produced/managed by Meridional ECA (Pty) Ltd until 1999, then KORA Entertainment Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd; honours musicians of African descent across Africa's regions and the diaspora (Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, America), per founder statements reported by ArtMatters.Info (tier-4 specialist arts press, fetched in full). Stored issuer 'KORA' and pan-African note stand. Defunct/intermittent: on hold after 2006, returned 2008; later editions sporadic (2010, 2012; planned 2016 Namibia edition never took place, per search-returned reporting).
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