An African City

An African City
GenreRomantic comedy
Sitcom
Created byNicole Amarteifio
StarringMaameYaa Boafo
Nana Mensah
Maame Adjei
Marie Humbert
Esosa E
Country of originGhana
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes23
Production
Executive producersNicole Amarteifio
Millie Monyo
Original release
NetworkYouTube
ReleaseMarch 2, 2014 (2014-03-02) –
present
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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.

  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.