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About Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura is a documentary film-maker.

Articles by Sorious Samura

Thursday 23rd December

My America

Sorious Samura, 23 December 2004

The Sierre Leonean filmmaker Sorious Samura wrote a letter to Jesse Jackson for openDemocracy’s My America: Letters to Americans series. This is its first publication.

Friday 6th February

Re-presenting Africa: an interview with Sorious Samura

Sorious Samura and openDemocracy, 6 February 2004

How do you tell African stories that engage a world audience? The pioneering African news journalist Sorious Samura – a streetwise sophisticate – talks to Caspar Henderson and Caspar Melville of openDemocracy.net about war, famine, Africa and reality TV.

Thursday 6th March

My American dream

Sorious Samura, 6 March 2003

This Sierra Leonean filmmaker was saved from prison and torture in Liberia by Americans. But when he worked in Sudan, Somalia and Afghanistan, American good intentions appeared in a different light. Can democracy’s ‘big daddy’ learn from its mistakes?