2024 MOBO Awards: Asake defeats Davido and Tyla to win Best African Act. [Complete list]

2024 MOBO Awards: Asake defeats Davido and Tyla to win Best African Act. [Complete list]

At the 2024 MOBO awards, Nigerian music sensation Asake took home the Best African Artist trophy.

The crooner of “Lonely at the Top” defeated superstars like Adekunle Gold, Davido, Rema, Ayra Starr, Burna Boy, Wizkid, and Rema to win the award.

Uncle Waffles, an artist from Swatini, Libianca, a Cameroonian-American, and Tyla, a South African, were also included in the category.

Afro-gospel singer Limoblaze won best gospel artist at the 2024 MOBO Awards, so Asake wasn’t the only Nigerian to take home a trophy.

Asake and Limoblaze have now won MOBO Awards alongside Nigerians 2Baba, D’Banj, Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy.

Rapper Tunde, a British Nigerian, took up the Best New Artist honor.

Topping the winners’ ranking with two trophies, Best Male Act and Song of the Year, was British rapper Central Cee.

The winners’ chart was topped by British-Nigerian rapper Central Cee, who won two awards: Best Male Act and Song of the Year for his collaboration with British-Nigerian rapper Dave on “Sprinter.”

Soul II Soul received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Drake and 21 Savage shared the Best International Act title.

2024 MOBO Awards: View Entire Winners List

Top male performer

Center Cee

Top female performer

Raye

Year’s Best Album

Potter Payper: A True Return to Fashion

Year’s Song

Center Dave and Cee— Sprinters

Top rookie

Tunde

Year’s Best Video

Mel Made Me Do It by Stormzy (dir. Klvdr)

Top R&B/soul performer

Sault

Top hip-hop performer

Tiny Sims

Top grime performance

Bugzy Malone

Top drill performance

K-Trap

Top foreign act (US)

21 Savage and Drake

Best acting in a movie or television program

Damson Idris in Snowfall as Franklin Saint

the greatest celebrity in the media

ShxtsnGigs

Top African musician

Asake

Top Caribbean musician

brave

Top jazz musician

The Ezra Collective

The best act in alternative music

Skin-dred

Top electronic/dance performance

Shygirl: The greatest producer

The best gospel act, inflo

Limoblaze

Lifetime Achievement Award

Award for Soul II Soul Impact

Award for Sugababes Paving the Way

Awarded to Jessica Ennis-Hill Pioneer

Ghettos