Rapper Nicki Minaj arrived on a private jet to perform in the Angolan capital Luanda on Saturday, The concert was hosted by the Unitel communications firm, a company part-owned by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' family . Nicki Minaj
performed to a packed crowd Saturday, despite human rights activists
and critics calling for her concert to be canceled in
the impoverished African nation of Angola.
The
33-year-old rapper was performing in the capital city of Luanda at a
Christmas party hosted by the Unitel communications firm, which is
part-owned by the family of the country's controversial President Jose
Eduardo dos Santos. Dos
Santos, 73, has been accused of overseeing corruption, misrule and
intimidation in the country that suffers endemic poverty, despite being
Africa's second-largest oil producer.
According
to the United Nations Development Programme, more than a third of the
country's population of about 24million people are living below the
poverty line, and nearly 70 percent of the population lives on less than
$2 a day.
Nicki Minaj posted this
photo on Instagram on Saturday after arriving in Angola to play a
Christmas concert for a company part-owned by the family of the
country's President Eduardo dos Santos
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