Angélique Kidjo: Visionary Leadership Award 2015

The Visionary Leadership Award honors a leader whose trailblazing work is impacting the world. The Award was created in honor of the late Jean M. Handley’s leadership as a Founding Director of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

The 2015 Visionary Leadership Award honors ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO - Singer, songwriter & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In an expansive career marked as much by extraordinary musical achievement as passionate advocacy and philanthropy for her homeland of Africa, Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and performer Angélique Kidjo has found many ways to celebrate the rich, enlightening truth about the Africa’s women beyond the media spotlight.

In this conversation she is interviewed by Marco Werman, host of Public Radio International's The World.