Analysing Music Reality Shows in Africa: Is Mr. Eazi’s EmpawaAfrica100 a better form of music reality show than the rest?

 I have followed Mr. Eazi’s empawa Africa project over the last few weeks going into a month now and a question popped into my head?

For those who might be hearing about EmpawaAfrica for the first time let me try and help.

Empawa Africa is a project initiated by AfroBeats and Banku Music artiste Mr. Eazi known for his biggest single in Ghana yet ‘Skin Tight’ .

The project selected over 100 artistes across the African continent via social media and enabled them to each shoot a music video with a budget of $3000.

After the first selection, the Empawa Africa team then made an announcement that it will short list the 100 selected artistes to 10.

So they cut the number from 100 to 10 and it was also announced that there will be a boot camp for the 10 artistes in South Africa.

That boot camp is still on going now; a lot of music experts, mainstream artistes and experienced social media experts have all passed through the boot camp in south Africa to share their knowledge with these talented 10 selected artistes.

Just recently on twitter Mr. Eazi announced that the Empawa Africa team might just increase its investment from the initial amount to 100K.

This according to Mr. Eazi will go to the musician with the best music business plan. The latter is to help the artiste stay independent.

Now to my question;

Is the EmpawaAfrica project, better or a more reliable music reality project than the rest of what we have?

I am asking this because it did not just select the artistes, put them in the house to battle each other but it supported all of them to get their music dreams out there.

The other reality shows boxes all these artistes to battle it out for only one artiste to get all the benefits.

Should all the music reality shows take the path of Empawa Africa project?

Don’t forget that the other music reality shows also give the new talents maximum exposures because they spend more time on television.

I think that the Empawa Africa project is a more beneficial music reality show than the others just because it is not only one artiste who benefits but the a lot of talents.