Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (film)

[3] The band's leader, Reuben Koroma, and his wife Grace fled the violence in Sierra Leone, ending up in the Kalia refugee camp in Guinea.

Later, when they were transferred to the remote Sembakounya camp, they found three more musicians - Arahim ("Jah Voice"), Mohammed Bangura and Alhadji Jeffrey Kamara ("Black Nature") - and some instruments and equipment, and the band was formed.

It was in this camp that they were discovered by the American filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White, and Canadian singer-songwriter Chris Valen in August 2002.

Eventually, the band returned to Freetown to record their first album, Living Like a Refugee.

[3] Daniel Gold wrote in The New York Times of the POV airing, "The story told here is simple, and ultimately triumphant.