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Sierra Leonean music in LA Times

Sierra Leonean music in LA Times

It’s exciting and inspiring for us to see Sierra Leonean sounds featured in a prominent paper such as the LA Times. We read a piece today talking about music and its political role in Sierra Leone, a country where the divide between the educated elite and the masses leaves little room for effective criticism. Singers [...]

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Refugee All Stars (Sierra Leone)

Refugee All Stars (Sierra Leone)

New track from Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars available via Cumbancha, download it here for free. So who are the Refugee All Stars? From refugeeallstars.org: The film ‘Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars’ tells the remarkable and uplifting story of a group of six Sierra Leonean musicians who came together to form a band while living [...]

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Eden Roots Liberation

Eden Roots Liberation

Through Bamako’s French Cultural Center I met Lloyd Tommy, half of Eden Roots Liberation. He and his partner Patrick Kousi are originally from Sierra Leone, the met in Freetown in 1990 through Massive Roots Band, a local reggae group. They started touring West Africa playing for Malian reggaeman Askia Modibo in the late 90s before [...]

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