A smiling Carey posed for a picture
with the Southern African dictator, his daughter and his wife (in the picture).
“I am happy to be here in this room,
and I am honored to share this show with the president of Angola,” the pop singer said at the gala,
according to the Human Rights Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on
protecting and promoting human-rights globally.
The foundation blasted her for
taking payment from a “tyrant.”
“Mariah Carey can’t seem to get
enough dictator cash,” the group’s president, Thor Halvorssen, said.
“Just five years ago, she performed
for the family of Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy. Now she goes from private
performances to public displays of support and credibility for one of Africa’s
chief human-rights violators and most corrupt tyrants.”
The diva made two performances in
the country. She appeared at a public show at Luanda’s Coqueiros Stadium, which
was sponsored by Unitel, a cellphone company controlled by dos Santos’
daughter, Isabel.
Carey also cranked out hits for two
hours at a gala fund-raiser for the Angola Red Cross, which Isabel heads.
In addition to Isabel, the gala was
attended by José Eduardo dos Santos and his wife, Ana Paula.
“It is the sad spectacle of an
international artist purchased by a ruthless police state to entertain and
whitewash the father-daughter kleptocracy that has amassed billions in
ill-gotten wealth while the majority of Angola lives on less than $2 a day,”
Halvorssen said.
It would be recalled that Mariah
performed in Lagos last Saturday for the first time ever, before departing to
Angola.
See the video from the concert
below.
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