Eddy Kenzo Wins Favourite African Star Orange Blimp Award At Nickelodeon's 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards

2018 KCA WINNER: Eddy Kenzo

Eddy Kenzo has won yet another international award. On Saturday, the multi-award winning Ugandan musician was named Favourite African Star at Nickelodeon's 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards!

Eddy was announced the winner of the coveted orange blimp award, beating rapper Cassper Nyovest (South Africa), athlete Caster Semenya (South Africa), singer Davido (Nigeria), comedian Emmanuella (Nigeria), and singer Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania), as part of Nickelodeon Africa's local telecast of the 2018 Nickelodeon’s Kids' Choice Awards. 

KCA 2018, which was hosted by WWE Superstar John Cena, took place at the Forum in Inglewood, California on Saturday, March 24, 2018, and premiered on Nickelodeon Africa and Nicktoons Africa on Sunday 25th March 2018 at 17:05 CAT, giving fans the chance to catch all the slime, music and mayhem of KCA 2018 less than 24 hours after the US live show.

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Eddy received the coveted blimp trophy thanks to kids throughout Africa who voted for their favourites online at kca.nickelodeonafrica.com and on Twitter using special #KCA hashtags.

This becomes yet another big international award that Eddy Kenzo has won. The Ugandan "sitya loss" superstar was the first winner of the BET International Viewers’ Award in 2015 and has won several others including AFRIMA Awards, Nigeria Entertainment Awards and the recent International Reggae and World Music Awards where he was named ‘Best African Entertainer’ among others.

The award wining artist took to social media to show his gratitude on winning the award.

Eddy joins Trevor Noah, South Africa’s most famous funnyman, who bagged the orange blimp for Favourite African Star during Nickelodeon's 2017 Kids’ Choice Awards last year.

Viacom International Media Networks Africa (VIMN Africa) Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Alex Okosi, commented: "The Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards offer a platform for African stars to be recognised for their excellence in their various talents including, music, sport and television by kids all over the globe. We are delighted to feature the continent's highly talented nominees in the Favourite African Stars category..."