Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars preview by Jill Renae Hicks

Many celebrities have boosted their public images by giving thousands of dollars to a charity, adopting a child from a developing country or writing a tribute-in-song about a natural disaster. Some of the stars in question have slightly gray motives, though certainly others are pure of heart. But there is no doubt at least one music group, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, is able to paint a picture of civil war and refugee life from an intensely personal place that most musicians simply can’t touch. After all, the group has lived it.

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