Nicki Minaj performs in Angola Saturday Dec 19,2015

 

Nicki Minaj performed to a packed crowd Saturday Dec 19,2015, despite human rights activists and critics calling for her concert to be canceled in the impoverished African nation of Angola

Nicki Minaj posted this photo on Instagram on Saturday after arriving in Angola to play a Christmas concert for a company part-owned by the family of the country's President Eduardo dos Santos

The 33-year-old rapper was performing in the capital city of Luanda at a Christmas party hosted by the Unitel communications firm, which is part-owned by the family of the country's controversial President Jose Eduardo dos Santos

 

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos(73) has been accused of overseeing corruption, misrule and intimidation in the country that suffers endemic poverty, despite being Africa's second-largest oil producer

According to the United Nations Development Programme, more than a third of the country's population of about 24 million people are living below the poverty line, and nearly 70 percent of the population lives on less than $2 a day