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John Chiti surveying his audience. As an albino, has revealed that his family rejected him saying he was a curse to the family. This included his own father. John come from the Copperbelt town of Ndola where he was raised but migrated to the capital, Lusaka to ply his musical talents. He is a good singer who has a good voice for the kind of Zambian music of thie generation and race has proved not to be a barrier in such endeavors.
This shifts my thoughts to Tanzania where albinos were being killed for ritual purposes. Here in Zambia, albino are being stigmatised but John Chiti had proved that they are people too.
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I don't know a lot about this guy but I like him(his music is great and his voice as well) and he is passing on a very good message, I hope that not ONLY his family but others families that look down on albinos. My late uncle even used to beat us when we played with an albino friend of mine but as kids you never stop. Thank God he never infiltrated us with these crazy stupid superstitions. it's indeed very sad for the albinos in Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
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