'Deportations made foreign writers ask: Do I belong in Sweden?'
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Gift Blessing is only 24 years old, but has already achieved an enormous amount. He is a rapper, an author, a newspaper columnist, and a poet.
He came to Sweden as a quota refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo as a young child. He broke through to public consciousness in 2021 with a bravura rap performance in Sweden's Got Talent (Talang).
Last month he was made Sweden's official reading ambassador with a mission to get young people reading.
And this week he is releasing an anthology of writing in…
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