Sorious Samura
Sorious Samura - award-winning
Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two
CNN documentary hits: "Cry Freetown" (2000) and "Exodus from Africa" (2001). Self-funded "Cry Freetown" depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in
Sierra Leone with
RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). "Exodus from Africa" shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via death and danger ridden paths from Sierra Leone and
Nigeria, via
Mali,
Sahara desert,
Algeria and
Morocco through the
Strait of Gibraltar to
Spain.