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Gordon Koang has been blind since birth. He spent most of his life in South Sudan. When a tribal civil war broke out in his homeland while the Afro-pop...

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This came out in 2004 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   THE SKINNY: The world’s...

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This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Graham Parker got off...

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