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Best of 2019: Music
BREATHTAKING ASSURANCE: Sona Jobarteh [Schorle]

 

DESPERATE to see some live music on a trip to Ghana, I turned up at the open-air +233 Club in Accra one balmy evening, prepared to take in whoever was playing.

 

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