Idris Elba’s Sherbro Island eco-smart city gets greenlight in Sierra Leone, as he and co-founder Siaka Stevens secure support ...

The actor stars in the action comedy 'Heads of State' while rumors in his country suggest he could be the Labour candidate ...

Celebrity investors like Idris Elba are also helping to spread the good word. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images. One surprising champion of Sierra Leone’s tourism push?

Idris Elba has several business moves in the works to advance Africa. As AFROTECH™ previously reported, the English actor has roots that trace back to Sierra Leone, his father’s native country.

Octopus Energy's generation arm, in partnership with Idris Elba, has kicked off its first renewables project in Africa, a pioneering wind farm on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone.

Siaka Stevens on working with Idris Elba and Sierra Leone's president. It looks like Sherbro Island City will, like Hill Station, be a city for the elite.

Idris Elba Sets Sights On Africa To Build ‘Eco-City’ and ‘Zollywood’ Film Studio. ... Afrotech reports the 51-year-old actor, whose father hails from Sierra Leone, wants to “house [his] ...

British film actor Idris Elba received Sierra Leone citizenship and a diplomatic passport on Friday on his first visit to his father's native country, an AFP journalist saw.

Idris Elba is no absentee boss. As part of his ongoing effort to develop Africa’s film industry, ... Elba's father was from Sierra Leone and his mother was from Ghana.

Analysis - Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people ...