AfricansGoneNatural, Africa’s number one Natural Hair Movement, recently announced the winners of its third Annual #AfrikinkyAwards. The Afrikinky Awards is a campaign that was launched in 2017 to help amplify the voice of women entrepreneurs, by celebrating, honoring and recognizing African natural hair innovators who are changing the game by creating products and jobs and contributing to economic growth within the continent. Nominees are selected for each country by AfricansGoneNatural followers in the categories of BEST NATURAL HAIR SALON, BEST NATURAL HAIR BLOGGER, and BEST NATURAL HAIR BRAND and selected during the voting period.
We are proud to announce that this year we had winners from 7 African nations of Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa and newly added Angola. We take great pride in having the ability to help promote and recognize the Crème de la Crème for each country. Women who have won the awards have continued to receive brand exposure, which further contributes to their overall business exposure within their respective countries. We hope to expand to other nations as well in an effort to continue in our mission to empower and recognize African Enterprises.
Now, presenting the winners:
2019 AFRIKINKY AWARD WINNERS!!!!!!!!
UGANDA:
SALON & BRAND @AFROS_N_MO
TANZANIA:
SALON @NATURALHAIRCLINICTZ
BRAND @JW0RGANICS__GALA
BLOGGER @LETSGONATURALTZ
KENYA:
SALON @URBANHAIRNAIROBI
BRAND @MARINI.NATURALS
BLOGGER @ITSANYANGO
SOUTH AFRICA
SALON @STYLESTUDIO_SA
BRAND @SHEABYDESIGN
BLOGGER @ JEMSOFANATURAL
NIGERIA:
SALON @FROLLICLES.NG
BRAND @KINKYNIGERIANCURLS
BLOGGER @IGBOCURLS
GHANA:
SALON @AFRO_PEARLS
BRAND @ WENATURALS
BLOGGER @THEFROTALES
ANGOLA:
SALON @CABELOS_AFRICANOS
BRAND @_PROBELLA
BLOGGER @MMDANNY_
The media sponsor for this years Afrikinky Awards were Emmanuel and Samuel also known as TwinsDntBeg, photographers of one of Africa’s best Social Media Group and Entertainment Websites, Swag Of African News. They can be found on Instagram at www.instagram.com/twinsdntbeg and www.swagofafrica.news
AfricansGoneNatural is also proud to announce the 2019 Afrikinky Awards partner, the African Women’s Development Fund of the USA. The African Women’s Development Fund USA (AWDF USA) was created by the Ghana-based African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), with a coalition of American women leaders, to spread awareness about the tremendous impact of African women-led organizations on communities across the continent. Their mission is to amplify the voices of African women who are making an impact on the continent. We are proud to announce them as our partner for this year and an added plus is that they have selected the AFRIKINKY AFRICAN BRAND OF THE YEAR from one of our 7 winners!!!!
GHANA – @WENATURALS
NIGERIA- @KINKYNIGERIANCURLS
SOUTH AFRICA – @SHEABYDESIGN
ANGOLA – @_PROBELLA
UGANDA – @AFROS_N_MO
TANZANIA – @JW0RGANICS_GALA
KENYA – @MARINI.NATURALS
After massive deliberation and review of the candidates by the board members of the AFRICAN WOMENS DEVELOPMENT FUND, USA the 2019 AFRIKINKY AWARDS NATURAL HAIR BRAND OF THE YEAR IS MARINI NATURALS OF KENYA!!!
Marini Naturals is the first ever recipient of the creme de la creme award for this category. The AWDF USA will be rewarding Marini Naturals with a grant to help further advance their contribution, mission and commitment to the natural hair world,as well as to celebrate the women on the continent making an impact.
CONGRATULATIONS TO MARINI NATURALS!!!!
For more information about the AWDF USA, please visit their website at www.awdfusa.org as well as their Instagram page at @awdf_usa www.instagram.com/awdf_usa
AfricansGoneNatural is a natural hair movement that was created in 2015 by two working class women with young families, who saw the need to help empower women worldwide to embrace their natural hair and beauty. The initiative started with the mission to help empower women with the information they need to help them become confident in rocking their natural hair and embracing their natural beauty. They have grown tremendously across their social media platforms and in the fall of 2017, launched their very own Natural Hair and Skin product line @AFRIKINKY. This was in an effort to further the mission to help people embrace natural skin and hair care with the use of all natural products. They take pride in the fact that work is with a women’s cooperative in Africa who handcraft all of their products and in turn are helping to empower them to build their communities and improve their quality of lives. The mission is to help other African Companies and Women strive for success collaboratively.
For more information on the awards program, you can follow #AfrikinkyAwards on Instagram. If you would like to be a sponsor or partner for the 2020 Afrikinky Awards, please contact us via email at AfricansGoneNatural@gmail.com.
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