Dr. Omar Bah became a journalist by walking into a newspaper in his home country of Gambia and offering to help expose government corruption. For his courage, he was tortured by the people he tried to expose, and eventually fled Gambia for fear that he would be murdered by the regime of the country’s then-president.
Bah’s escape from Gambia — and what happened next — is the subject of the new documentary Unbowed, by Mae Gammino and David Helfer Wells. It recounts how Bah started a new life in Rhode Island, and founded the Refugee Dream Center, a nonprofit dedicated to helping refugees find jobs, education, employment and housing — as well as a sense of community.
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