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World Service,16 mins

My epic journey to Afrobeat superstardom

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Tresor Riziki's path to superstardom in South Africa started with a journey across half of the African continent. He is a multi-platinum selling artist with his own brand of Afrobeat pop music. But he’s not from South Africa, and he had a pretty tough journey getting there. Tresor started life in Goma, in the Eastern DRC. It’s a small city that’s experienced quite a dramatic recent history. There have been decades of armed conflict there, and even a volcanic eruption, but Tresor remembers a childhood in the early 90's, before the worst of the turmoil. (Photo credit: Tahlecia Constantinou.)

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