Idris Elba has been given citizenship of his father's native Sierra Leone. Elba told the BBC said that citizenship was "the bigge...
Idris Elba has been given citizenship of his father's
native Sierra Leone. Elba told the BBC said that citizenship was "the
biggest honour I could get from my country".
"I'm no stranger to Africa: I've been in Africa, I've
made films in Africa, I've championed Africa," he said. "But Sierra
Leone, it's a very different feeling because it's my parent's home."
"The welcome has been incredible, and I've plugged
straight into that energy that I think Sierra Leone is rising with. The son of the soil is coming back to fertilise the
soil."
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