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Liberia tries pop song, billboards to calm census fears

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  • Census workers chalking numbers on houses, huts, shacks stir suspicions
  • Liberians deeply distrust government after 24 years of civil war, massacres
  • To allay fears, pop star wrote catchy tune about the census; billboards remind people
  • Many Liberians illiterate, don't know their age; census takers must be imaginative
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