Stonebwoy historically wins African star award at Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards

Ghanaian dancehall act, Stonebwoy, has made history over the weekend after he emerged as one of the winners at this year's Nickelodeon Kid Choice Awards.

The Bhim Nation President beat competition from Nigerian superstar actress, Adesua Etomi, Nigerian on-air personality, IK Osakioduwa and Sauti Sol, a Kenyan Afro-pop band, to be crowned favorite African star.The Ghanaian musician now becomes the first African Dancehall Artist to win both a BET and Nickelodeon award

Sharing his excitement of reaching this height, Stonebwoy posted a video of the moment he was declared the winner at the Kids Choice Awards and added a message.

He wrote "Favourite African Star. Ghana 🇬🇭Won!! Thanks for Voting.. 

#bhimnationglobal". 

Fans of the 2015 BET's best African act, couldn't hide their excitement either and flooded the comment session of his post with lots of congratulatory messages to celebrate the Bhim hero.

See the post below and don't forget to add your congratulatory message if you haven't yet.

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Favourite African Star. Ghana 🇬🇭Won!! Thanks for Voting.. #bhimnationglobal🌎🇬🇭🏁

A post shared by 1GAD (@stonebwoyb) on Mar 24, 2019 at 10:58am PDT

UPDATE:

Our attention has been drawn about the venue of where the award ceremony was held and Stonebwoy was mentioned as the winner, as suggested by this publication earlier. We are therefore working on getting clarification about that and we shall update this article with our findings as soon as possible.

Source: Pulse Ghana