Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, said Minaj had “revealed the depth of her ignorance” and it was “quite possible she doesn’t know anything about Angola”. She agreed to perform despite protests by human rights activists.
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The rapper upset The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) after learning her concert in the Angolan capital of Luanda was sponsored by mobile telecommunications company Unitel, which the BBC reports is co-owned by the family of Angola’s President and dictator Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
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She also happens to be the daughter of José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola’s president-cough-dictator.
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The hip-hop star went through with her much-maligned concert in the dictator-led nation on Saturday – just days after activists begged her to cancel the show. Despite the calls to cancel, Minaj rocked the stage posting video of the crowd going insane to her performance along with the caption, “Angola has my heart”.
Dos Santos, 73, has been accused of overseeing corruption, misrule and intimidation in a country that suffers endemic poverty despite being Africa’s second-largest oil producer.
In total 17 activists – including prominent rapper Luaty Beirao, students, journalists and even members of the military – were arrested on June 20 at a youth movement gathering to demand the departure of dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979.
Minaj appeared in a Unitel clip on Facebook, promoting Saturday’s gig and also shared the event’s poster via social media, tweeting: ‘Guess who’s performing in Angola Dec 19th at the Unitel Christmas Festival’. “Shout out to any woman on a paper chase”.
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Angola marked 40 years of independence from Portugal last month, with dos Santos vowing to bring progress to the country, but critics accuse him of ruling through fear and repression.
