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Friday, December 14, 2012

Escape to Africa hits the screen

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Escape to Africa hits the screen
Dec 14th 2012, 23:00

The new flick by award-wining filmmaker Daniel Moore, Escape to Africa, was premiered in Sierra Leone recently. It is scheduled to premiere in the Gambia on Christmas Eve, while movie fans in Nigeria, Tanzania, and the UK will see it in the first quarter of 2013.

The film has been rated within and outside the continent as one of the greatest things to happen to African film and theatre. The flick features established names in Nollywood, Ghollywood, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Its main plot is set in Sierra Leone's Freetown, but with sub-scenes in Great Britain.

Nollywood's Desmond Elliot played the role of a runaway fraudster and murderer, known as Paul Barnes. Sierra Leone's highest paid movie star, Jimmy B, played the role of Oumar, a waiter who lures a European returnee, Maitta Bull 'Mabinty Kama', into a relationship, with the plan to jilt her the moment she ferries him to Europe.

Ghana's screen diva, Naa Ashorkor, played Abi Johnson, a naïve Christian devotee who gets entangled in an erotic lifestyle after being influenced by her friend and colleague at work, Jumai.

The storyline was taken from Johnson's perspective and she was the narrator, revealing the ordeal she went through, at the same time telling the story of millions of ladies like her. The Gambia's top actor, John Charles Njie, played the honest and comical detective in the movie. Sulaiman Stephens played Ansu. Another big name from Sierra Leone, Desmond Finneh, played the role of a corrupt police inspector, Jayke Aernan, who also doubled as an actor, director, amongst many more.

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