Sondeka Awards 2020 Kenya: All the winners

The event featured performances by musicians Brian Sigu and Shamsi Music, which won in the Live Band category.

The awards ceremony, organised annually by the Creatives Garage, was to take place at the National Museum in Nairobi on 1 April but it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Below is the full list of winners: 

Live Bands

• Serro 
• Nairobi Horns Project 
• Shamsi Music 
• Rash 
• WeN_Music 
• Cheif and the Marshalls 

Experimental Music

• Basthma 
• Halisi the Band 
• Kali
• Mumala Maloba 
• Cathy Matete 
• Maryolive Mungai 

Online Radio and Podcasts

• Lazereggae Invasion Podcast 
• One Down 
• Mo Nyarinda 
• Friday Foreplay
• The Get Down
• Asylum Radio

 Traditional Art

• Emmanuel Wandera 
• Martin Liam Njiru 
• Yona Wanjala Mudibo 
• Francis Lee Gitahi 
• M_nine 
• Ango 

Poetry and Spoken Word

• Mumbi Macharia 
• Mak Mansa 
• Cardiac Poet 
• René Louis Solomon 
• Crazy Mwanafunzi 
• Alfaisal 254 

Digital Art

• Daniel Omulo Otieno 
• Faysal Anthony Nair 
• John Mutahi 
• Ng'endo Mukii 
• Bénir 
• Kelvin Shani 

Short Stories

• Kennedy Kiiru Macharia 
• Ian Abraham Nyakinya 
• Wilson Westwood 
• Moses Nguyai 
• Gladwell Pamba 
• Cj Giche

Watch the virtual event below: