“If you are an African musician, people are waiting for you to fail,” says Angélique Kidjo, five time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and activist from Benin in West Africa – and one of the greatest living artists anywhere.
“They expect you to be late, and to never be good enough. I always tell the new generation, ‘Be spotless, because where you come from has a lot of clichés. But be defiant. Refuse to be categorised.’”
