Sierra Leonean actress, filmmaker, and social activist, Henrietta Mbawah has passed away in at the Life Care Hospital on 17, February 2023 in Freetown, after a short illness, it was announced on Friday, 17h February 2023.
Following the announcement, tributes from those in the entertainment industry across the world have expressed their deepest condolences through their social media platforms.
On her Facebook page, it stated: ”Sorry to announce the death of our beloved. Sister Henrietta mbawahRest in peace sis”
Life and career of Henrietta Mbawah
Initially, Henrietta Mbawah started to act in television serials with minor and uncredited roles. In 2016, she made the short film Jattu. The film rotates around a girl called Jattu, who survived Ebola outbreak in Africa. Later in the same year, she appeared in the short film Ebola Checkpoint where she played the role of ‘Journalist’. She is also the Chief Executive Officer Manor River Entertainment Company. In 2019, she won Sister’s Choice Award due to her involvement in the women’s empowerment in Sierra Leone.
Mbawah died on 17 February 2023, at the age of 34
Salone Messenger Media expresses its deepest condolences to the family, entertainment industry, and people of Sierra Leone for the passing away of this great entertainment legend.