Angélique Kidjo | Top 100 women

Africa's Grammy award-winning 'premier diva', who is politically outspoken and runs an education foundationIn 2006, at a concert in Zimbabwe, Africa's "premier diva", aged 50, launched an attack on Mugabe: "I can't understand someone who is burning his own country and abducting his own people. If you live by violence, you die by violence." The audience prevented her being pulled of the stage and she managed to flee.In Benin, where Kidjo was brought up, she faced opposition because singers were n...

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