Sorious samura

Sorious Samura (* 1964 ) is a Sierra Leonean journalist and documentary filmmaker.

He has been an honorary doctor of the University of East Anglia since 2003 .

Filmography

His best-known film is Cry Freetown (2000), which documents the events in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown during the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999. Cry Freetown contributed to publicizing the war crimes of that time in Sierra Leone and is said to have influenced the decision to send the UN mission UNAMSIL .

For Exodus from Africa (2001), Samura followed the path of African emigrants through Nigeria , Mali , Morocco , the Sahara, Morocco and Spain .

Return to Freetown was to follow later . Sorious Samura also produced other documentaries about Liberia and Uganda . In 2002 he was the first to report sexual assaults by UN personnel on refugees in Guinea. In the same year he traveled to Afghanistan , Somalia , Uzbekistan and Indonesia for 21st Century War .

Other films by Samuras are Living with Hunger (2003) about life in a poor Ethiopian village, Living with Refugees (2004) about Sudanese refugees from Darfur , Living with AIDS (2005) about AIDS in Zambia and Living with Illegals (2006) about the Route of illegal African immigrants from Morocco via mainland Europe to Great Britain. For each of these productions, Samura lived for a month with Ethiopian villagers on their usual food ration, in a Chadian refugee camp, with illegal African immigrants or as a carer in a Zambian hospital.

Sorious Samura also worked on the production of Blood Diamond .

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• Sorious Samura Biography

Web links

• Cry Freetown (English)