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AFRI-ANNIVERSARY
Oya!!!
Let's Go!!!
It's time for Afri-Anniversary oooo!!!
We invite all Writers and Musicians (Vocalists, Instrumentalists, Song writers, Music composers and Orchestra musicians) to join us in celebrating this great Milestone on Hive.
Our contest for the Afri-Anniversary will have two categories; music and writing. The aim of the contest is to celebrate the African Tunes or Music on Hive, and this you can do so by sharing your lovely musical piece or your written piece related to the niche (African Music).
MUSIC CATEGORY
We encourage you to sing or play your musical instrument with passion and love. You can either compose a song or present a cover of a song that is directly or indirectly related to any African musical genre.
For Valid Entry
- Subscribe to Afritunes Community
- Post in Afritunes Community
- Upload video via 3speak or Youtube video via ecency
- Use the unique tags of the event
- #afritunes (community tag)
- #afriversary (Anniversary tag)
- #music
- #jahm (optional)
- #pob (optional)
- #vyb (optional)
- Include “AFRI-ANNIVERSARY” in your title
- At the introductory part of the video: say your name, week title (Afri-Anniversary) and the title of the song you wish to present.
- Let your word count be 250+
- Let your writeup contain more of your inspiration behind the song or reason for choosing the song.
- If lyrics are added, it must be cited properly.
- Properly cite all external materials.
- "Proper" use of instrumentals as background music is allowed
Those who find it challenging to select a song for this Afri-Anniversary can choose any of the suggested songs:
| Genre | Title | Artist | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☆ | Gospel | This year (blessings) | Victor Thompson |
| ☆ | Secular | Champion | FIREBOY DML |
Original instrumental and Acapella is recommended, however if you intend to use external instrumental you can extract the instrumental from the song via moises.ai/. If you need further guidance comment on this post and we will guide you adequately. Remember to cite Moises.ai in your post as the tool for extraction.
WRITING CATEGORY
We also invite writers who would love to participate in this amazing event. You are invited to share your inspirational, motivational, experiential, financial, comedy or fictional form of writeup that directly or indirectly relates to African music. For instance, you can write about:
- Your best African song(s)
- Your experience in an African cultural event (with emphasis on the musical aspect)
- Relationship between African music and Gaita, Flamenco, Rumba, Salsa or Reggae.
- The future of African music
- Incorporating Web3 into African music
- African music on Hive
- Hive Marketing using the model: Afri-tunes Branded T-Shirt embedded with QR
- Your hope, plans or ideas for Afri-tunes community
- Or.... anything creative (except writeups that are
NSFW).
For Valid Entry
- Subscribe to Afritunes Community
- Post in any community of your choice (Afri-tunes Community or any)
- Include “AFRI-ANNIVERSARY” in your title
- Use the unique tags of the event
- #afritunes (community tag)
- #afriversary (Anniversary tag)
- #music
- #vyb (optional)
- #pob (optional)
- #dreemport (optional)
- #ecency (optional)
- Let your word count be 500+
- Properly cite all external materials (images or quotations).
- Include your link in the post that will be shared at the beginning of the Anniversary week.
Side Information
Members of 
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR AFRI-ANNIVERSARY CONTEST
- The Afri-Anniversary contest will begin on Friday, 3rd March 2023 by 00:00 (GMT +1) and will end on Thursday, 9th March 2023 by 23:59 (GMT +1).
- You can only make one entry (either music or writing)
- Comment on, at least, two Afri-anniversary posts
- Ensure to use the contest tag and include your link in the post that will be shared at the beginning of the Anniversary week to make sure your entry is valid.
- If you have the Afri-tunes Branded T-Shirt, we'd love to see you wear it to sing or/and upload lovely pictures with the T-Shirt in your post write-up.
☆ PROPERLY cite all external materials (images and text) - ENSURE TO PUT THE LINK TO THE SOURCE
Cite this way:
[Lyrics or text Source](then put the web link here)
BIG NEWS!!!
Everyone who makes an entry for the Afri-Anniversary contest (music or writing) within the time duration will receive a special Badge from HIVEBUZZ!!!
We are happy to receive this awesome sponsorship from the 
🏆
AFRI-ANNIVERSARY CONTEST PRIZES
MUSIC CATEGORY
1st Prize – 10 Hive + 5 Legion Tokens + 5 Leo Tokens + 150 Ecency Points + 100 Music Tokens
2nd Prize – 5 Hive + 50 Ecency Points + 50 Music Tokens
WRITING CATEGORY
1st Prize – 15 Hive + 300 DREEM Tokens + 3 HBI (Hive Basic Income) + 150 Ecency Points + 100 HP delegation (for 30 days)
2nd Prize – 8 Hive + 150 DREEM Tokens + 2 HBI + 50 Ecency points + 75 HP delegation (for 30 days)
Note:
- Writing category prizes of 5 Hive + 300 DREEM Tokens + 3 HBI Points + 100 HP delegation; and 3 Hive + 150 DREEM Tokens + 2 HBI + 75 HP delegation are sponsored by Dreemport.
- You can join the Dreemport family and turn in your post to get curated and reach a wider audience. Read more about it here
- Vyb & Pob Curators "may" curate quality entries
- Indiaunited Curators "may" curate quality entries
- Lazy Panda Curation Trail "may" support a few quality entries.
- Afri-tunes Curation Trail "will" curate quality and valid entries.
- GIVE YOUR BEST!!!
ENGAGEMENT RACE
1st – 5 Hive + 300 Ecency points
2nd – 3 Hive + 150 Ecency points
3rd – 2 Hive + 100 Ecency points
NB:
Every Subscribed member of Afri-tunes Community is eligible to run the race for the Engagement reward.
May the Best Engager Win!!!
LEOTHREADS ENGAGEMENT
15 Leo tokens will be shared among those who share their post or 3speak video on leothreads with the hashtags #afritunes #music
Afri-tunes Leo Curation Trail will also curate #afritunes threads.
NB:
Every Subscribed member of Afri-tunes Community is eligible for this reward.
You can read this post from Afri-tunes titled The Beauty of Promoting your music via Leothreads and #Afritunes is Better and Bigger on LEOTHREADS: Collaboration with Leofinance to learn more about Leothreads/Projectblank and how to use it for your music.
SPECIAL PRIZES
First "Valid" entry will receive 2 Hive.
Always remember to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes.
❤
If you want to sponsor the contest prizes with Hive, Leo or Ecency points, you can send the tokens to 
or 
, or you can reach out to us via Afri-tunes Discord Server!!!
or , or you can reach out to us via Afri-tunes Discord Server!!!- You can also join the Afri-tunes Discord Server and other music servers to promote your song.
AFRI-TUNES COMMUNITY HUB ON DISCORD
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Let's get to know ourselves better and make our journey on Hive an awesome experience. 👌
💫 THANK YOU TO OUR AMAZING SPONSORS 💥
Thanks to the kind assistance of our lovely and fantastic sponsors, the prize pool for the Afri-Anniversary Event is made possible.
Ecency is an amazing frontend on Hive that enhances content creation experience. Posting, commenting and engaging with Ecency's web or mobile version earns you Ecency points.
With the Ecency Points you can boost and promote your/other's post, as well as gift the points to others.
Leofinance Community is a strong hub for crypto and finance related content on Hive Ecosystem. Leofinance founded Leothreads as a microblogging platform where everyone can share their short writeups, pictures and videos. Musicians can promote their musical posts and share their musical videos to get more engagement and earn $Leo tokens.
The Stick Up Boys (
The Legion token is a non inflationary utility token for the BRO economy and it offers monthly Hive dividends to all its holders. Stick Up Boys has sponsored 5 Legion tokens for this event and for subsequent Afri-tunes Weekly Contests.
Read all about Stick Up Boys https://linktr.ee/StickUpBoys
ReggaeJAHM is a place for lovers of Reggae, Hip Hop, Caribbean Culture & IRIE vibes. It has its own unique frontend https://www.reggaejahm.com/, and you can earn the $Jahm token when you use #jahm hashtag in your post.
The ReggaeJAHM Community has been a great support for Afri-tunes Project right from Afri-tunes' inception. Special thanks to 
Dreemport is a platform that seeks to establish authentic relationships between readers and writers by promoting and rewarding content and engagement, as well as giving authors wider audience/reach for their quality content.
The Dreemport family also offers support to and collaborate with creative projects. You can check this page to join the Dreemers.
Special thanks to 
Hivebuzz is a gamification project on Hive that helps you track your achievements on Hive blockchain, and notifies you when you receive new badges.
Special thanks to
Special thanks to 
VYB Logo created by 
Verify Your Brain Tribe alongside its token VYB (Vybrainium) was created to complement the Proof of Brain tribe and POB token. It presents itself as a working solution to the prevalent issues on Hive in respect to curation and abuse. You can read its initial whitepaper to learn more about this project.
Special thanks to the VYB curation team for their wonderful support 
Special thanks to 
We hope to receive more collaboration, support and sponsorship in order to facilitate the growth of this project.
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