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PARIS: Veteran Afro-jazz legend Manu Dibango died on Tuesday after contracting the new coronavirus, one of the first worldwide stars to succumb to the disease. The 86-year-old Cameroonian, best known for the 1972 hit ‘Soul Makossa’, “died early this morning in a hospital in the Paris region,” his music publisher Thierry Durepaire said. A message on his official Facebook page …

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