Sandton, South Africa - The KORA All African Music Awards will be taking place on Saturday, December 6th at the Sandton Convention Center in Sandton, near Johannesburg, South Africa. African musicians from around the world will be recognized for their artistic accomplishments. Previous winners for the 2002 KORA Awards have included Hugh Masekela for Best African Musician, Alicia Keys for Best African American Diaspora Artist, and Koffi Olomide' who won the KORA Award in several categories.

The Kora All Africa Music Awards and EMI/CCP Records launched a 16 track Compilation CD earlier this year, which is a selection of the finest tracks perfomed by previous winners of the KORA.

This Kora Album features artists such as Bayete, Mandoza, Brenda fassie, Ringo Madlingozi and Jeff maluleke from South Africa, Papa Wemba, Kofi olomide, Awilo Longomba and Makoma from D.R.C, Oliver Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), Femi Kuti from Nigeria, Kojo Antwi from Ghana, Mensah Ayaovi from Togo, Jacky Rapon from Island of Martinique, Angelique Kidjo from Benin, Kelly Price from the US.

[Photo of Oliver Mtukudzi].