Benin’s Grammy Award-winning musician Angelique Kidjo, along with three African youth activist movements, has been awarded the 2016 human rights award for standing up to injustice by Amnesty International.
Kidjo and Senegal’s Enough is Enough (Y’en a marre), Le Balai Citoyen from Burkina Faso and Lucha from the Democratic Republic of Congo have shown “exceptional courage,” the rights group said.
Kidjo is also known for her prominent campaign for freedom of expression and work against female genital mutilation, reports the BBC.
The musician has now joined a list of famous people who have won the Ambassador of Conscience Award, including South Africa’s first black President Nelson Mandela and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
