How did you spend Saturday night? Considering the time of the year, most people probably enjoyed a few hours at a holiday party sipping on eggnog in an ugly Christmas sweater.
Or maybe you were traveling to a holiday destination. Or maybe you stayed in and watched Saving Private Ryan (for the 100th time), alone on the couch, with tacos and ice cream. That’s what I did!
Nicki Minaj, on the other hand, had a very interesting and controversial Saturday night. Nicki spent Saturday evening performing at a private party in the African nation of Angola.
That’s not controversial. The controversy revolves around whom she performed for, and how much she was paid for that performance.
On Saturday, Nicki was paid $2 million to perform at the corporate party of the Angolan telecom company, Unitel. Unitel is Angola’s largest privately owned company. It generates over $2 billion per year in revenue.
That’s all well and good. The problem is that Unitel is owned by the daughter of Angolan President, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who happens to be a brutal and corrupt dictator.
The Human Rights Foundation begged Nicki not to perform at this concert on Saturday, claiming that the dos Santos family has used
“Angola’s diamond and oil wealth to amass an illegitimate fortune while maintaining control over all branches of the government, the military, and civil society.
[Jose] dos Santos has made it his policy to harass, imprison, or kill politicians, journalists, and activists who protest his rule.”
She also posed for a photo with Isabel. Her caption to that photo was “Oh no big deal…she’s just the 8th richest woman in the world. (At least that’s what I was told by someone b4 we took this photo) Lol.
Yikes!!!!! GIRL POWER!!!!! This motivates me soooooooooo much!!!! S/O to any woman on a paper chase. Get your own!!!! Success is yours for the taking!!!!! #Angola thank u to the women who brought me out here as well.”
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