“That sold me on the role, the fact that my character’s queer,” Coel said. “I thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana.”
"Being Ghanaian herself, it’s important to Coel that she helps other Ghanaians see queer representation in the film."
She was not born in Ghana, but London. Additionally she left her parent's pentecostal religion behind. She has lived her entire life in London and identifies as aromantic.
I hope she makes a big ordeal out of "showing this to Ghana." I want to laugh at the reaction she gets. I want to laugh at how real Ghanaians laugh at her Western sickness.
Ghana's interesting with a sympathetic history of being screwed by global finance and later the CIA. see the Curtis documentary 'Pandora's Box: Black Power' (ep5) about Kwame Nkrumah and the Akosombo Dam.
“That sold me on the role, the fact that my character’s queer,” Coel said. “I thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana.”
"Being Ghanaian herself, it’s important to Coel that she helps other Ghanaians see queer representation in the film."
She was not born in Ghana, but London. Additionally she left her parent's pentecostal religion behind. She has lived her entire life in London and identifies as aromantic.
I hope she makes a big ordeal out of "showing this to Ghana." I want to laugh at the reaction she gets. I want to laugh at how real Ghanaians laugh at her Western sickness.
Good grief. All they can talk about is representation
That's effectively what she's saying.
Ghana's interesting with a sympathetic history of being screwed by global finance and later the CIA. see the Curtis documentary 'Pandora's Box: Black Power' (ep5) about Kwame Nkrumah and the Akosombo Dam.