South Africa’s Bonang Matheba has been announced as a co-host of the 8th edition of the Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards, scheduled to hold on May 14, in Lagos.
Announcing the awards’ hosts, Executive Head of Content and West Africa Channels, MultiChoice Nigeria, Dr. Busola Tejumola said, “We are excited to have Bonang join IK as co-host for the eighth edition of the AMVCAs. They are both extremely talented and have attained continental acclaim having both hosted some of Africa’s biggest shows. Together they will keep the crowd entertained on the biggest night to celebrate African film and TV stars.”
Bonang will be making her hosting debut at the AMVCAs while Nigerian media personality, IK Osakioduwa, will return to host the award.
Speaking on her AMVCA debut, Bonang expressed her excitement saying, “it’s been a long time coming. It’s always such an honor to host live productions and I think after COVID, we haven’t had the opportunity to be outside to have these big, big productions with live studio audiences. So, it’s lovely to have all of that back. It’s also an honor. Any single stage I get to step on is an honor. I’ve always wanted to work with IK. I am a huge fan of his. So, I’m looking forward to that too,” she said.
On making his return to the glamorous AMVCA stage, IK said, “I feel honored to be hosting the AMVCAs again. I’m also really excited about the decision to honor the social media content creators with a category of their own. Trust me when I say, without a doubt this year is going to be another amazing outing for the African film industry.”
Bonang will be bringing her wealth of experience from hostings award shows and prominent events including the 2016 MTV Africa Music Awards, the pre-shows for the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards and 2016 BET Awards, and Miss South Africa 2019.