What a Difference a Day Makes: Rapper Raphael Olympio on the man who changed everything
Raised in Cork, rapper and poet Raphael Olympio fled Togo, West Africa, along with his family, when he was five. He tells Helen O’Callaghan about a neighbour in Togher who taught him the game of hurling, helping Olympio and his family to integrate. And how, inspired by this childhood mentor, he himself now works in integration.
Raphael Olympio: was mentored by the late John Egan, and now mentors in turn through music