Zimbabwe will in November host The List Awards, an initiative meant to recognise excelling and outstanding people in various fields including community development, business, arts, media, science, sports, and humanitarian efforts.
The awards, which also consider people in east and southern Africa, are the brainchild of women rights activist and media personality Nyari Mashayamombe under her Identities Media project.
Nominations for the awards which have categories including Business Impact, Humanitarian Impact, Social Impact, Entertainment Impact, Youth Impact, Poverty Alleviation and Climate and Environment open tomorrow.
Human Rights Impact, Sports Impact and Storyteller/Journalism Impact are some of the categories for the awards whose ceremony is scheduled for November 8.
For southern and east Africa, two categories are up for grabs and these are the Artist Pan African Impact as well as the Role Model Pan African Impact.
Mashayamombe said the List Awards are meant to raise the bar for recognition in Zimbabwe and Africa, comparable to the prestige of the Oscars in America.
She said she wished to restore the integrity and respect of awards, which have become too commercialised at the detriment of the deserving women and men who work to impact our country and continent.
“I’m so grateful to be launching something that I’ve dreamed of seeing for many years,” she said.
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“As a #changemaker who’s dedicated all her life to improving the life of others, I’ve had the privilege of experiencing #awards in all their glory and suspicions.
“I’ve always wanted to create something that honours, celebrates and treats deserving individuals in the form of awards acceptable to them.
“First of all as a person who selflessly dedicates her life to uplift others, it always feels empowering, assuring, inspiring and energising to be thanked, to be seen through being given awards.
“Secondly I always felt like I should never have to pay a cent to be given an award because awards are meant to honour the efforts that I’m already doing, they are meant to say we see you Nyari, thank you for your efforts!
“Now if for all this work that I do in this world someone still comes to me and expects me to pay for an award then I don’t want it!
“I want something that already sees what I’m doing as worth celebrating, I want others to give me money as a thank you; I want to be pampered through awards as a thank you. “
She said she has yet another opportunity in her life to do something that meets the expectations of people like herself.
“I have the honour to be the convener and curator of The List Awards by Identities Media TV!,” Mashayamombe said.
“These awards celebrate people like myself, who do great work for others in our communities.
“My desire is to celebrate these individuals, pamper them, and bless them with money and goodies!”
