Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars

Garbage to the Showglass

by James M. Manheim

posted 11/1/2006

The musicians who make up Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars all knew each other in the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown. But they never played together until they met again in the Sembakounya Refugee Camp, at the end of Sierra Leone's ruinous civil war. They hung a sign reading "The Place to Be" outside a makeshift bar, styled themselves the Refugee All Stars,

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