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Mayor on the Front Line
Mayor of Freetown finds herself on the front line of a democratic crisis.
The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has won international plaudits for addressing many of the issues facing the capital of one of Africa’s poorest countries. But as she bids for re-election for a second term, she finds herself on the front line of a democratic crisis.
Filmed during a year of mounting intimidation and violence, this documentary follows Aki-Sawyerr as she fights to win a second term amid one of Sierra Leone’s most fiercely contested elections since the end of the country’s bloody civil war.
