You have sunny beaches, temperate mountain villages, college towns where there are plenty of cultural offerings, and historic colonial cities.

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When HIV arrived in Leopoldville-Kinshasa, it was one of the burgeoning cities of late colonial Africa, rich with a new kind of urban life and music like this, recorded in the mid-50s.

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