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Freetown's mayor Aki-Sawyerr gains global acclaim for Sierra Leone rights advocacy.

In this first episode, we follow the mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, to understand what motivates her and observe the challenges she faces as she bids for re-election.

As she starts her campaign, the mayor finds herself on the frontline 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.

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Follows the mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone as she bids for re-election.

Follows Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, as she bids for re-election.

Follows Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the Mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone, as she bids for re-election.

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