Sierra Leone's - Disgruntled Youths
2018, 50 minutes
Why are the youth of Siera Leone Trapped in Poverty?
Sierra Leon's Disgruntled Youths is a TV and VOD award nominated documentary following Chester Yang was a theatre artist when he fled the civil war 20 years ago, returns to Sierra Leone to reconnect with his past and to understand why Sierra Leone has not made any progress since the end of the civil war in 2003. Chester takes viewers into a journey to discover the hustling historic city of Freetown, the neglected countryside, meeting disgruntled youths from the dump site to the illegal diamond mines, genuinely showing how the people are living on the edge of a harsh society. What is at stake in the country. Why are the people trapped in a cycle of poverty and lack of hope?
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