Aws (aka Alusine) is a great example of enterprise and initiative. He came to Hobart just as a traveller when he was on Sydney and quickly realised there was no barber shop serving the growing local African- Australian population. Aws was born in Sierra Leone and grew up there in a difficult time when the country was suffering a long civil war and eventually, like many others, Aws and his family would flee to neighbouring Guinea and eventually would relocate to Sydney.