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Akon
is in Liberia to promote a scheme to install electricity in schools; Akon said
he did not know that electricity existed until he moved to the US at the age of
eight. Getty Images
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Senegalese-born hip-hop
musician Akon is in Liberia to install solar electricity at two primary schools
in the West African country.
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Akon
told the BBC that he was moved by the resilience of the Liberian people after
14 years of civil war and the recent Ebola epidemic. BBC
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