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Monate Akuei’s journey from dodging bullets to starring in rugby fields

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Monate Akuei. [Photo: Courtesy]

When you first hear it, the words sound so outlandish, so inexplicable, that you ask him to repeat them. 

I’m not joking,” he says with a touch of confidence. “I can still remember witnessing it; running away from war at the age of three.”

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