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WORLD TOUR: Ferocious, left, and Epiphany at Anoska Village in Mauritius.
BY ROBERT BELL
O BRINGING GLOBAL KIDS TO LITTLE ROCK Local rapper spearheads effort.
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MARCH 28, 2013
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ld saw though it might be, it’s nonetheless true that travel broadens one’s horizons. Even the most scripted travel-group trip can get you out of your comfort zone and serve as a reminder that there’s a big old world out there outside of our fishbowls. Little Rock hip-hop mainstay Chane “Epiphany” Morrow had traveled outside the states before last summer. But it was on a U.S. Embassy-sponsored teaching visit with producer Dondrae “Ferocious” Vinson to The Gambia in West Africa last July that the big-old-world-outthere thing really hit home for him. The two have since visited Mauritius and The Seychelles on similar trips. “I’m a firm believer that when you do a non-touristy overseas trip you come back impacted, and usually that impact makes you want to have a positive effect on the rest of the world, your immediate surroundings and yourself,” Morrow said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 82