An African City

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An African City
Genre Romantic comedy
Sitcom
Created by Nicole Amarteifio
Starring MaameYaa Boafo
Nana Mensah
Maame Adjei
Marie Humbert
Esosa E
Country of origin Ghana
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes23
Production
Executive producersNicole Amarteifio
Millie Monyo
Original release
Network YouTube
ReleaseMarch 2, 2014 (2014-03-02) 
present

An African City is a television and a web series, which was created as a Ghanaian equivalent of Sex and the City for YouTube. [1] [2] [3] The first episode of the webseries debuted on March 2, 2014. The second season debuted on January 24, 2016. The series follows the lives of five single young women of African descent who have recently resettled in Accra, Ghana, after living abroad for most of their lives. [4] The series also displays how each woman balance being a successful college-educated woman with their personal lives as well as their new life as "returnees" in Ghana. [5] Each episode is told in first-person narrative through the main character NanaYaa and touches on a wide array of subjects from power outages or skin whitening to condom use, self-gratification and sexual abstinence before marriage.

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History

Nicole Amarteifio, the creator and executive producer of the webseries, was inspired to create the series based upon her life as she was born in Ghana but raised abroad. Upon her official return to Ghana, she wanted to tell the story of women returning to the country, as well as help change the face of the African woman within mainstream society. Inspired by Issa Rae of the webseries Awkward Black Girl , Amarteifio made the series a webseries because she felt that her ideas would be changed and it wouldn't be the story she was trying to tell had she made it a television series. However, she based the series off of Sex and the City because she believed that Sex and the City gave American women confidence, and she wanted to do the same for women across the African continent. [6]

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References

  1. "An African City' Web series generates buzz, dismantles stereotypes". CNN. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  2. "Sex, Style And Success In An African City". NPR. April 10, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  3. "An African City Creator: 'Lupita Nyong'o Is the Modern African Woman'". BET . Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  4. ""An African City," the web series about five single women in Accra, Ghana » AFRICA IS A COUNTRY". Africasacountry.com. March 26, 2014. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  5. Wells, Veronica (March 18, 2014). ""An African City" Webseries Explores Love For Modern African Women". MadameNoire. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
  6. "AfriPOP! » The new and next in Global African culture » Ghanaian Writer Nicole Amarteifio on Creating the Hit Web Series, 'An African City'". Afripopmag.com. April 30, 2014. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved June 24, 2014.