Underemployed youth in Ghana try to make a living through online scams in Sakawa. In a Ghanaian slum, a group of youth, including siblings Ama and One Dollar, use salvaged computers to create fake online personas, which they use to try and scam lonely westerners out of their money.
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Sakawa, named after the Ghanian term for online scams, is a film that is technically an observational documentary, though director Ben Asamoah seems to be trying to structure the film to have some sort of semi-fictionalized narrative. I have to admit that I found Sakawa to be quite slow-moving and dull, which would probably have made a better short than a feature. Other than the mildly humorous moments of phone calls with terrible female voices, there is not really all that much I took away from the film.