A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Gabriel, Blow Your Vuvuzela

Gabriel, Blow Your Vuvuzela

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John Mendelssohn
Jun 16, 2010
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I was puzzled for the first several minutes of the first World Cup game I watched this year, USA v. England, as it sounded as though every wasp in Africa had converged on the stadium. I have now come to understand that strange buzzing noise was in fact thousands of vuvuzelas, elongated plastic horns that South Africans seem to love to blow (and blow and…

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