Femi One wins prestigious award in the US

The Kaka Empire signee has been crowned the best female rapper in Africa

Piece by: DENNIS MILIMO
Entertainment

• WCB Wasafi President Diamond Platnumz was crowned Best Live Act.

• Femi One won the award for Best female rapper at the 2022 AFRIMMA Awards in Dallas, Texas.

Femi One wins award for Best Female rapper in Africa at AFRIMMA
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Kaka Empire signee Wanjiku Kimani aka Femi One is the Best Female Rapper for the year 2022.

Femi One won the award for Best female rapper at the 2022 AFRIMMA Awards in Dallas, Texas.

The Gala for the awards went down over the weekend with three other East Africans also walking away with awards.

WCB Wasafi President Diamond Platnumz was crowned Best Live Act.

His signee Zuchu won the award for Best Female artiste in East Africa while Next Level Music CEO Rayvanny took home the award for Best male artiste in East Africa.

Speaking after receiving the award, Vanny Boy dedicated the award to fellow East African musicians.

Receiving the award, in Dallas, Texas the former WCB signee dedicated the prestigious award to fellow East African artistes.

"I want to thank god, and my fans across the world, it was like a dream come through for me. I have so many awards but I was looking for this and finally, I got it.

“Finally I get this, thanks to AFRIMMA and the whole team. I just wanna dedicate this award to my East African fellow musicians. This is for us, we are one, and thanks AFRIMMA for the Award. I love you all,” Rayvanny said.  

On her part Zuchu said;

“I’m actually very emotional right now because I spent the whole night crying yesterday because my show in Houston did not go as planned but God told me 

“We can always take failure as a lesson, as an upcoming artiste I’m just telling you guys this is not the end but actually the beginning of my journey.

Adding that; "As East Africans, we gonna work a bit harder because of the Swahili but we gonna make it and we have to make it.

"Thank you, everybody, who has been supporting me it’s been two years in the game, and today I’m standing here holding this award representing the female artiste from East Africa.

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