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    Burna Boy

    Oct 09, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ANDREW R. CHOW

    “THE REAL AFRICA HAS NOT BEEN SHOWN. FOR A long time, the world has only seen videos of little kids and their ribs, asking for donations,” Burna Boy says with a bitter laugh. The Nigerian superstar sits in a London studio, sporting a crisp marbled button-down and immaculately coiffed dreadlocks while serenely holding a cup of Hennessy and Coke, presenting a very different image indeed.

    No one person can represent an entire continent. But sometimes it seems as though Burna Boy is expected to.

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