are these for real?
Why Game n Weezy on there?
I imagine including American Artists as nominees is for the right reasons; such as
(i) putting American and African artists on the same stage and the same awarding criteria to show that good music is good music regardless of geographical origin.
(ii) blurring those same distinctions that translate into boardroom decisions that decided to place all genres of music from Africa into the "World Music section" of retail music shelves abroad.
(iii) to combat the perception the average misinformed American has about African music and it's people e.g. the imagination that our music consists of banging on skin drums & jumping around in the dust.
People making music in Africa win.
