An African City will ever Take on 'Sex and the City'?

Well well well, who knew An African City will ever Take on 'Sex and the City'?
Nicole Amarteifio’s popular show about well-to-do young women in Ghana is back for a second season and make n mistake it is a storm...! The cast of 'An African City,' left to right: Esosa E., Maame Adjei, MaameYaa Boafo, Nana Mensah, and Marie Humbert. (Emmanuel Bobbie).

“There’s one story we very often hear about Africa—war, poverty, famine—but when you look at a city like Accra today, it’s really cosmopolitan, hip, and modern, and I wanted to put that version of the continent on the map,” says Nicole Amarteifio, who launched the popular show on YouTube in 2014. “I’m trying to start a different conversation.” The show’s second season, with 13 half-hour episodes, will debut onlineon January 24.

Western stereotypes about Africa are familiar turf for Amarteifio, who was born in Ghana but attended school and worked for several years in the United States. Living in the U.S., she says, she grew wearily familiar with what Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie has termed the ”single story” of disease and suffering the world often hears about Africa. But it wasn’t until she moved permanently back to Ghana in 2012 that she came up with a way to flip that script.“I was watching a lot of old episodes of Sex and the City, and one day I thought—this is how you fight those stereotypes, with an African version of this,” she says. “Sarah Jessica Parker would probably be really surprised to learn she was my answer for how to bulldoze Africa’s ‘single story.’”

In this sensational tv show, the girls sip martinis and browse designer duds, reel from sticker shock at the cost of renting a hip urban condo (a cool $5,000 a month), and debate the merits of going dutch on dates.Close your eyes, and this might seem like a rerun of Sex and the City. But the five women in this TV show aren’t traipsing the streets of New York City: Their glam playground is the city and suburbs of Accra, Ghana. We at Empower Success In Africa welcome to An African City, and maybe not the one you were expecting.