The First Grader
Sep 12, 2010 | IMDB 7.1
103 min Watch NowDrama, History, Romance
The true story of an 84 year-old Kenyan villager and ex Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford.
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