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episodes and related shows online, and used them as a template for her writing, as well as stories from her friends throughout Africa. She found actors at casting calls, and contacted an old school classmate, Maame Adjei, to play the part of Zainab. Adjei went to school in
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as the first-ever social-media strategist in Accra. Several months after returning to Ghana, she began introducing her idea to television professionals, who declined to take up the project but encouraged her to learn how to write a show.
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