Nicki Minaj ignored pleas from human-rights activists to
cancel her Saturday concert in Angola — and posted photos of her
bejeweled behind to Instagram to rub it in.
The 33-year-old rapper performed in the African nation at a
holiday concert hosted by Unitel, a telecom company controlled by
Angola’s ruthless dictator, José Eduardo dos Santos.
She will reportedly receive $2 million for the appearance.
Click to see what the human rights president wrote to her and her posts in response.
“The payment you are receiving from your Angolan sponsors is the
result of government corruption and human-rights violations,” Thor
Halvorssen, president of the Human Rights Foundation, wrote in an open
letter to her last week.
Minaj reacted by posting to Instagram a photo of her boarding a Gulfstream jet to Angola.
She posted another pic upon landing, then two more before the show.
“Oh hai, Angola. Ready for the show?” she wrote in a caption on a pic of her in a sheer bodysuit.
Dos Santos has ruled Angola since 1979, exerting control through rigged elections and suppression of dissent.
This year, his regime killed some 200 members of an opposition party
and imprisoned 17 activists for reading about nonviolent resistance.
He stole at least $32 billion in oil revenue from his country, the International Monetary Fund alleges.
Nearly 70 percent of Angola’s 21 million citizens survive on less than $2 per day, and few have regular electricity.
Mariah Carey faced similar outcry in 2013, when she accepted $1
million to sing for dos Santos and his daughter, Isabel, co-owner of
Unitel.
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