From child soldier to making music with Paul Kelly: Fablice Manirakiza’s remarkable journey

Recipient of an Australia Council award for community outreach, the Burundi refugee explains why music makes such a difference

When Fablice Manirakiza first arrived in Melbourne in 2007, speaking no English, aged just 14, and far away from home in Africa, he was afraid.

He had never heard of Australia before. Worse, in the Tanzanian refugee camp where he had lived out his early teenage years, rumours had been circulating that “white people eat black people”.

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