83 Quotes by Angelique Kidjo

But this isn't just about Kenya. This crisis is devastating the whole of the Horn of Africa. Millions of people are still suffering.

I'm an African bringing my culture to the Western world. But I use technology and rhythm and blues and jazz and rock. I make it easier for you by combining your tools with mine. But then some will say the music is not pure.

It is an issue of attitude change. You cannot preserve cattle and let your children die.

We have to stop the vulnerability of losing lives so stupidly. We have the capacity. We have the brains, yet we behave like new-born kids.

We Africans have to be able to deal with our problems. Help from outside is alright, but we have to learn to be responsible for our own attitudes.

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.