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'I can't say that I don't like a strawberry if I never tried one.'

Musician Kika Materula says it鈥檚 exactly the same with classical music. She runs Xiquisti, a project to set up Mozambique鈥檚 first youth symphony orchestra. With nearly half the country鈥檚 population under the age of 15, providing education and training opportunities are sorely needed. Violinist Jessica Nhantumbo dreams of being a professional orchestral musician, as the 91热爆鈥檚 Stephen Ryan discovered in Maputo.

(Picture: Kika Materula. Credit: Stephen Ryan)

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