Pearl of Africa Music Awards have been the best awards in recognising the efforts of Ugandan musicians and East African Musicians in Uganda. However, last year the awards did not take place leaving artists like Moze Radio and Weasel a frustrated lot after a lot of efforts had been put in their music to garner all the categories that they could be listed in.

The DIVA Awards which were exclusive to the female artistes came on board and are now working very hard for their second function of which Cindy was the Diva of the year taking with herself a cash prize of 1mn.

Another group came up with Awards but even the method of selecting winners was so traditional because it involved people lining up behind an artist for a given category and the one whose line was longer was declared the winner for that category.

The latest to enter in this field as the PAM Awards which launched a few weeks back in Burundi are trying to put their house in order is the Vision Group. Vision Music Group Awards will take place in October this year.

The Vision Group feels they are in a position to promote the music industry given their five radio stations, five newspaper publications and Bukedde TV as stated by the awards coordinator Joseph Baate.