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Ivory Coast musician sings out for peace in his land By JOAN BAXTER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 01-12-2003, Sunday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Sunday

Years after his angry, politically pointed lyrics were tagged with helping bring on a coup in Ivory Coast, Africa's leading reggae star is trying to inspire with a new message for his warring West African homeland: peace.

Chain-smoking in his hotel room in Bamako, Mali, on a West African tour, his voice thick with emotion, Alpha Blondy makes an impassioned appeal for cool tempers in Ivory Coast, where a rebellion that began Sept. 19 has now torn apart one of the region's leading nations.

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