Awoko

Name: Awoko
Director: Felix Bazalgette
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2021-11-02
Duration: 9 min

20219m

★ 0.0

Documentary

Shot over one night in the loud, dimly lit printing press, this is the story of the men whose labour lies behind Sierra Leone's oldest daily newspaper.

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