Nicki Minaj: The Hell with Human Rights; Performs for Angolan Dictator

Human Rights Foundation president Thor Halvorssen also spoke out, saying: “Nicki Minaj is a global artist”. If you’re keeping track of her “EFF-YOUs” to activists, she posted another pic upon landing, then two more before the show.

The rapper upset The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) after learning her concert in the Angolan capital of Luanda was sponsored by mobile telecommunications company Unitel, which the BBC reports is co-owned by the family of Angola’s President and dictator Jose Eduardo dos Santos.

Concert organisers said they had sold 6,000 tickets for the concert, which was held in the 12,000-seat Coqueiros Stadium where she shared the stage with several local acts.

Angola is Africa’s second largest oil producer but it’s president José Eduardo dos Santos, 73, runs what critics call a corrupt government and leads a nation that suffers endemic poverty.

He has ruled Angola with an iron fist since 1979, exerting control through rigged elections and suppression of dissent. She also posted a picture of herself all decked out in a bedazzled sheer body suit with dos Santos, whom she tagged on Instagram as “the 8th richest woman in the world”.

“ANGOLA HAS MY HEART”, she wrote in a caption attached to a video of screaming fans occupying the crowd at the concert venue.

Should Minaj have cancelled the performance? Yikes!!!!! GIRL POWER!!!!! This motivates me soooooooooo much!!!!

Minaj performed a day after a judge ordered the release of 15 Angolan activists, including prominent rapper Luaty Beirao, who were arrested six months ago during a book reading where one of the books on the agenda was about non-violent resistance to repressive regimes.

In 2013, pop superstar Mariah Carey was similarly criticized for performing in front of the Angolan leader for a reported fee of $1 million.