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Youssou N'Dour has used his status as a singer, percussionist and actor to fight for many causes over the years.
He has performed to free Nelson Mandela, the former South African president, when the elder statesman had been jailed for 27 years under the Apartheid government.
He has also participated in the Live Aid concerts to end poverty and has been a Unicef ambassador.
As an actor he has highlighted black history by playing the role of Oliudah Equina, the African writer whose experiences as a slave prompted him to become involved in the British abolition movement once he had been set free..
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Thursday, 2 September 2010
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