Living Like a Refugee

Reuben Koroma, a founding member of the band Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, at his temporary home in Providence, Rhode Island.

A band of Sierra Leonean war refugees is trapped outside their country — again

October 31, 2014Music

One of Sierra Leone’s most popular musical outfits is made up of former refugees from their country’s civil war. But now they’re in exile again — in Providence, Rhode Island, while the Ebola outbreak threatens friends and family back home.