For the nine members of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, music provides a method for healing and a conduit for a message of hope. For nine refugees from Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, music is ...

From 1991 to 2002, the tiny West African country of Sierra Leone—a diamond-rich former British colony and one-time base for the transatlantic slave trade—was disfigured by civil war as gruesome ...

When this group first burst on the scene, it was difficult to figure out which was more compelling—their harrowing survival of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war and their unlikely coming together in a ...

on 2 April 2014 the Refugee All Stars, a group formed by refugees from Sierra Leone, were at the United Nations Headquarters to take part in the United Nations Academic Impact's conversation series, ...

If the refugee is today's tragic icon of a war-ravaged world, then Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, a reggae-inflected band born in the camps of West Africa, represents a real-life story of survival ...