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Cameroon Musician Fights for Albino Rights

As an albino, Cameroonian musician Mengue Ondou Etienne faced resistance when he first took to the stage 30 years ago.  But now he is being honored as a trailblazer in the fight to end discrimination against albinos in Cameroon.    Etienne, better known by his stage name Calvino, uses the mvet, a traditional musical instrument popular among the Fang people of Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea to thrill his audience in the Equato-Guinean capital, Malabo.   He has...


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