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

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

"I had to make it so that other 12-year-old African girls sitting in Westchester would not be trapped in conversations…"

"I always felt Ghana was home."

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

"Ghana was always a paradise."

"Ghana was home."

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

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

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