Echo
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Last published Sat, Apr 18, 2015
Echo. How do you define the purpose of ones own voice. How do you define the difference between a good or bad echo? Perhaps we just know, but what if it was just a little bit more than that...
Amara is a young black girl, born in the southern depths of Kibera the biggest slum in Africa; her father is dead and her mum gravely ill. But when forced to fend for herself, even hope is a luxury she can't afford.
Money is the source of the modern life, so what if that source was cut, then what?
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