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Buju Banton Long Walk to Freedom return

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The concert at the National Stadium in Kingston in March 2019, Buju Banton's first performance after his release, and one of the largest audiences a Jamaican artist has drawn at home. Its significance is less the setlist than the scale of the welcome: a career interrupted for the better part of a decade resumed in front of a full stadium.

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Guardian — Buju Banton on prison and liberation

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