UNITED KINGDOM · 2010

The First Grader

Justin Chadwick
education access elderly empowerment post-colonial Africa perseverance against adversity intergenerational learning
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The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.

Year2010
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorJustin Chadwick
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