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The Benin-born, Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Angelique Kidjo was once called "Africa's Premier Diva," and is known for mixing different styles, like funk, salsa, jazz, and rumba, alongside traditional West African music. She has said that 鈥渨e鈥檙e all a part of Africa, because humanity was born there. From the time I started singing as a little girl, my mom and dad said to always follow my inspiration and never to compromise my music, but, above all, to give music to empower people all over the world. Music has no colour, no language, no boundaries.鈥� She鈥檚 now dedicated to helping African women and girls fulfil their potential, and so alongside her singing career, she works as a Ambassador, and has her own to help girls in Africa gain an education. And now she has a new autobiography and an album called Eve, which she has dedicated to the women of Africa, and includes the voices of African women鈥檚 choirs. Angelique Kidjo joined Jenni Murray to explain how music, her upbringing as a girl in Benin, and her experiences as an exile in Paris, inspired her to use her voice to not only make music, but to campaign for human rights, to help girls and women all across Africa.

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Angelique Kidjo鈥檚 new album, Eve, is released on 28 January on 429 Records, and her autobiography, Spirit Rising, is published on 30 January by Harper Collins.

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And Angelique can also be heard in session on on 大象传媒 Radio 3 on 14 February, speaking to Lopa Kothari and playing five tracks from her new album, Eve.听

A cancer diagnosis can be devastating and life changing, so why do some people choose to share the details of their illness with the general public? Both and have chosen to do so because it鈥檚 both empowering and helps to demystify the disease. Kate Granger has been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of sarcoma in 2011 which will cut her life short prematurely. She has written widely about her illness both on social media and in two books. Sadie Nine is a radio presenter with 大象传媒 Essex who was diagnosed with breast cancer and has discussed it widely with her listeners.

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The subject of abuse on Twitter is in the news again this week. Yesterday the footballer Stan Collymore accused Twitter of not doing enough to stop the abusive messages he received. The gymnast and Olympic medallist Beth Tweddle was the also the subject of vulgar messages as she did a live question and answer session on Twitter with Sky sports. Twitter has announced that it has introduced a button to report abusive messages but how likely is it that you would be able to take legal action against people who abuse others on twitter? Susan Aslan is a media lawyer from Aslan Charles Kousetta and Helen Lewis is from the New Statesman.

How does being a female fan shape your life and define your relationships? Radio 4鈥檚 documentary looks behind the 鈥榟ysteria鈥� and finds ordinary women finding a sense of belonging that goes beyond the screaming portrayal of 鈥榗razy obsessives鈥�. We speak to music journalist and broadcaster Ruth Barnes, one of the presenters of the documentary and Jo Hemmings, a behavioural psychologist specialising in celebrity culture.