African diva Angelique Kidjo, Benin s highest-profile export, has built herself a gaudy mansion right on the side of the main road that runs between the capital, Cotonou, and the western town of ...

Nairobi — BENINOISE SINGER Angelique Kidjo will give her maiden performance in Kenya with one show at the Carnivore in Nairobi on April 26. The concert is organised by the Alliance Francaise and ...

“If you are an African musician, people are waiting for you to fail,” says Angélique Kidjo, five time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and activist from Benin in West Africa – and one of the greatest ...

Cultural appropriation has never sounded this good as the Benin-born singer transforms the Remain in Light album Inspired by nascent hip-hop, Fela Kuti and the trance-like rhythmic rituals of Haitian ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Reporting on Africa, its diaspora & hip-hop's class acts. Angélique Kidjo’s four-decade career has been marked by an unapologetic ...