Best Female winner Yemi Alade of Nigeria
With the 2015 MTV Africa Music Awards behind us, let’s admit it, our African brothers and sisters did teach us a thing or two about dressing up for an awards ceremony. We know this because we saw it with our own eyes!
Truth be told, South Africa still has a long way to go when it comes to developing a Red Carpet culture — especially because rappers still insist on attending awards ceremonies in jeans and sneakers!
Witnessing Nigerian-British musician Seyi Shay change outfits thrice and current Mr Nigeria Emmanuel Ikbese donning a suit that looked like it was sewn onto his body, were just some of the things that had us thinking that our celebs still need to up their fashion game and in that way uplift the many talented young fashion designers who could do with the exposure and the money. Angola’s Ary
But of course there are people like Bonang Matheba, Pearl Thusi, more recently Jessica Nkosi and a few others who never disappoint. Here are some of the other Red Carpet looks we liked!
The Okoye twin brothers, also known as P Square are undoubtedly the biggest musical success story to come out of Africa
Pearl Thusi dazzled in this baby blue number!
Boity Thulo chose to play it safe in a lace jumpsuit
