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CNN on 2020-09-14 12:40

This world-renowned Gambian musician is building an academy so children can study their own culture -- without leaving Africa

She has found international fame as a musician, but Sona Jobarteh has a bigger mission -- to use culture to empower Africans to reform their countries.

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