Angel Boy

By: Bernard Ashley

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Synopsis: The holidays lie heavy on young Leonard Boameh. His school friends live far away from his home town of Accra, his nana is no fun, and his dad -- who's great -- is away working most of the time. So Leonard decides to run away for a few hours, and when Nana isn't looking he takes the tro-tro bus to Elmina, a historic European fort built to imprison West African slaves shipped off to America. There are lots of rough kids begging there, and before Leonard knows what's happening, he is kidnapped by the meanest gang of all, who plan to use his angel-face to fleece the tourists. Leonard is now a slave, trying to escape from a living nightmare.