{"id":128439,"date":"2019-06-20T18:02:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=128439"},"modified":"2019-06-20T18:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:30:15","slug":"femi-kuti-others-to-perform-at-afcon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=128439","title":{"rendered":"Femi Kuti, others to perform at AFCON 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Organising Committee of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has announced that Nigeria\u2019s legendary Afro-beat singer, Femi Anikulapo-Kuti will perform at the opening ceremony of the competition.<\/p>\n

Kuti, a four-time Grammy Award nominee will be joined by two other musicians, Hakim from Egypt and Dobet Gnahore from Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n

The 2019 AFCON is set to kick off with the new expanded 24 teams on Friday in Egypt, it will be preceded with a colourful opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

In a post on CAF\u2019s official Twitter handle, the continental football body confirmed that Femi would perform the official song for this year\u2019s AFCON alongside Hakim and Gnahore.<\/p>\n

The Afrobeat singer will perform in English, while Hakim and Gnahore performs in Arabic and French respectively.<\/p>\n

The three international musicians will sing, \u201cMetgamaeen\u201d (We Are Together) produced by Synergy, together on stage in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n

Femi had previously performed at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa at the Soccer City Stadium on June 11, 2010, in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Host, Egypt will play Zimbabwe in the opening match while the Super Eagles will take on debutants, Burundi in their opening fixture on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 2019 AFCON will hold from June 21 to July 19.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Organising Committee of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) has announced that Nigeria\u2019s legendary Afro-beat singer, Femi Anikulapo-Kuti will perform at the opening ceremony of the competition. Kuti, a four-time Grammy Award nominee will be joined by two other musicians, Hakim from Egypt and Dobet Gnahore from Ivory Coast. The 2019 AFCON is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}