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Imagine Sex and the City, but instead of New York City, the action takes place in Accra, Ghana.
This remix is called An African City, a Ghanaian series that debuted on YouTube two years ago. The girlfriends are five fashionable African women raised abroad who have returned home to continue high-powered careers, look for love and have sex. Lots of sex.
The show’s creator, Nicole Amarteifio, who was born in Ghana and raised in New York, says she wrote An African City for African women who came of age abroad, in the U.S. or Britain.
“I felt that they couldn’t really relate to Nollywood,” says Amarteifio, referring to West Africa’s film capital, located in Nigeria. “But there was a lot about Hollywood they could relate to, so that gap between Nollywood and Hollywood, I was trying to fill it for that audience.”
Sex And ‘An African City’: A Steamy Ghanaian Show You Don’t Want To Miss
Photos: Emmanuel Bobbie/An African City Ltd.
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How One Boston Neighborhood Stopped Gentrification in Its Tracks
Tony Hernandez remembers playing as a child on the vacant lots in the Dudley Street neighborhood of Boston. In the 1980s, white flight and disinvestment had so devastated this neighborhood that more than 20 percent of the land—1,300 lots—lay vacant. Today, Hernandez owns a home on this land, one of 225 units of permanently affordable housing. His home is surrounded by parks and gardens, a town common, community center, charter school, community greenhouse, and several urban farms. This transformation was led by residents of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, who in the late 1980s established a community land trust to take democratic ownership of the land and guide development.
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