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Visas Koroma is careful with his criticism, though. After all, it was not easy for his band to secure visas to tour the
United States. No-one in the band had a bank account or even a taxpayer's identification
because Sierra Leone is still trying to rebuild and the US authorities were
reluctant to grant the band visas. It took the intervention of Nancy Pelosi, a leading Democratic
politician, for the All Stars to gain entry to the US. Besides, Koroma knows that had it not been for the two US filmmakers
who discovered his band in a refugee camp in 2002, the world might have
never heard of the All Stars. When Sierra Leone's civil war ended in 2002, Koroma returned home,
forgetting about the film made about his band until 2005 when it won several
important awards. The film, and the All Stars debut album, Living Like A Refugee, has won
the band fans around the world. It also won them important friends, as well, like ex-Beatle Paul
McCartney and rapper Ice Cube. The All Stars say they are happy at home in Sierra Leone now. They want
to build a recording studio and they want to record more albums about the
struggles of refugees. "We are trying to build the new Sierra Leone," explains Koroma shortly
before going on-stage in New York. "We are not refugees, anymore." . For questions and comments, email us at: editor@runningafrica.com |
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