Sorious Samura - award-winning
Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two
CNN documentary hits: "Cry Freetown" (2000) and "Exodus from Africa" (2001). "Cry Freetown" depicts the most brutal years of civil war in Sierra Leone with
RUF capturing the capital city. "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 Marocco
? through the [Strait of Gibraltar]
? to
Spain.