Tyla keeps winning. At the UBS Arena in New York, the South African pop star won the second MTV Video Music Award (VMA) for Best Afrobeats, continuing her streak of dominating African music-related categories at western award shows. She won the award for “Water,” the smash hit that placed her firmly on the path to global prominence.
In her acceptance speech, Tyla described the win as “special but also bittersweet.” Her comments were in relation to the tendency of western award bodies to group all African artists under the Afrobeats…
