Career
He is best known for two Cable News Network documentary films: Cry Freetown (2000) and Exodus from Africa (2001). The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999). Exodus from Africa shows the harrowing effort by the best of young African male blood to break through to Europe via deathand danger-ridden paths from Sierra Leone and Nigeria, via Mali, the Sahara desert, Algeria, and Morocco through the Strait of Gibraltar to Spain.
"Living with corruption", his latest documentary shown on Cable News Network, describes the shocking reality of how corruption is spread across society both in Sierra Leone and Kenya, affecting mostly the poor.
In 2010, Samura investigated attitudes to homosexuality in Africa in the Dispatches documentary Africa"s Last Taboo, produced for Channel 4. Samura is also one of the directors of "Insight News television", an independent television production company in the United Kingdom focused on international current affairs programming.
Samura attended the Methodist Boys High School in the east end of Freetown. As of 2007, he works in London, United Kingdom, and considers both London and Freetown his hometowns.
