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"To solve the problem, all you have to do is blow up the continent of Africa."

- Nicole Amarteifio

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"Started to guide me into what I had to do."

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"I had to make it so that other 12-year-old African girls sitting in Westchester would not be trapped in conversations where that sentiment is brought out."

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"I always felt Ghana was home."

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"From when I was a child, I knew I wanted to come back."

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"it was the kind of food my mom was making or my grandmother telling us stories, I just knew that there was somewhere called home."

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"Ghana was always a paradise."

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"Ghana was home."

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"Whenever I turned on the TV, or opened a newspaper, or turned on the radio, if Africa was mentioned, it was very negative."

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"It was always a story of war, poverty or famine."

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"“I said to myself, ‘That’s my answer. I’ll fight the single story of Africa by producing a show like “Sex and the City,” set in Accra.’”"

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"You’re African,Why are you majoring in AAAS?"

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"I have some really great memories, but I also remember really wrestling with my identity and my blackness."

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"You can’t study at Brandeis and not get inspired by the fight for justice."

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"I had been in development communications for about five years when I decided to look into programs that could help me hone that skill."

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"I googled “development communication programs” or something with similar keywords and Georgetown’s Masters of Professional Studies in Public Relations/Corporate Communications was on the first page of results."

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"I applied, was accepted and began classes a few months later."

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"It was at Georgetown that I met Professor Mike Long and discovered we both had a passion for the creative world, for theatre and for television."

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"When I told him that I wanted to create a show where Africa meets ‘Sex and the City’ but I had no idea how to go about it, he said to me: “step one: just write."

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"When it comes to the TV industry, I teach myself by googling everything I don’t know. Maybe one day I’ll take a more formal course in TV production, but Google’s search engine has given me all the tools I have needed so far."

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