Why Angelique Kidjo can't abide world music -- New Internationalist

Why Angelique Kidjo can't abide world music -- New Internationalist

 Slavery had deprived African people of their rights and dignity, but they found a way to resist and keep their identity and pride alive through music. In a way it is the dialectic of the master and the slave: today the whole world has embraced the rhythms and the melodies of the slave to whom humanity was denied.

 

 

 The Grammy award-winning musician, writer and UNICEF goodwill ambassador has many strings to her bow, and may soon add another, as a cook. No wonder she refuses to be ‘put in a box’. Louise Gray finds out more.

 

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You left Benin in 1983 to study jazz in Paris, and ended up
finding Africa elsewhere: in jazz music in France, then the blues of the
US, the carnival and candomblé of Brazil, the salsa of Cuba. Is this testament to the resilience of African music?

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