Econet Media’s sports content platform, Kwese Sports, has announced that it is the main sponsor for the BBC African Footballer of the Year Award 2016. Kwese will live stream BBC World News’s Focus on Africa, when the result of the BBC African Footballer of the Year Award revealed live on 12 December.
The sports platform also has rights to football content including the Premier League, Spanish Copa Del Rey, Serie B amongst others and this sponsorship further affirms its commitment to supporting global and African Football.
Kwese would like to congratulate Pierre–Emerick Aubameyang, Andre Ayew, Riyad Mahrez, Sadio Mane and Yaya Touré on making it to the top five finalists this past weekend. Voting for the 2016 nominees opened on 12 November and close on 28 November.