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Movies & TV Paapa Essiedu: the Ghanaian-British Hamlet who became Severus Snape Paapa Essiedu, a British actor of Ghanaian descent, made his name at the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he played Hamlet and King Lear. After I May Destroy You and Gangs of London, HBO cast him as Severus Snape in its Harry Potter series.

Movies & TV The Burial of Kojo: Blitz Bazawule’s dreamlike Ghanaian film The Burial of Kojo (2018) was the feature debut of Ghanaian musician and filmmaker Blitz Bazawule. Told through the eyes of a young girl, Esi, it follows her father Kojo, trapped in an abandoned mine, and was distributed by Ava DuVernay's ARRAY.

Movies & TV Beasts of No Nation: the Netflix war film shot in Ghana and its Ghanaian star Beasts of No Nation (2015), directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and shot in Ghana, was Netflix's first original feature film. Ghanaian newcomer Abraham Attah won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at Venice for his role as Agu.

Movies & TV Chadwick Boseman: the actor who played kings and legends while fighting cancer in secret Chadwick Boseman played Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall and T'Challa, the Black Panther. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016, kept it private while filming, and died in August 2020 at 43.

Movies & TV Issa Rae: from Awkward Black Girl on YouTube to Insecure on HBO Issa Rae, born Jo-Issa Rae Diop to a Senegalese father, built an audience with the YouTube series Awkward Black Girl and turned it into HBO's Insecure, which ran for five seasons from 2016 to 2021.

Movies & TV Blood Sisters: Netflix’s first Nigerian original series and the director it lost Blood Sisters, released in May 2022, was Netflix's first Nigerian original series. Produced by EbonyLife, it starred Ini Dima-Okojie and Nancy Isime and was co-directed by Biyi Bandele, who died months later.

Movies & TV The Woman King: how the Agojie of Dahomey reached the big screen The Woman King (2022), directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Viola Davis, told the story of the Agojie, the women warriors of the West African kingdom of Dahomey. It was a hit and a source of argument about history.

Movies & TV Letitia Wright: from Guyana to Shuri to carrying the Black Panther mantle Letitia Wright was born in Guyana and moved to London as a child. She became famous as Shuri in Black Panther (2018), won the BAFTA Rising Star Award, and took up the Black Panther mantle in Wakanda Forever (2022).

Movies & TV Thuso Mbedu: the Pietermaritzburg actress who led an American series on her first try Thuso Mbedu was raised by her grandmother in Pietermaritzburg, earned two International Emmy nominations for Is'Thunzi, then became the first South African woman to lead a US television series in Barry Jenkins's The Underground Railroad.

Movies & TV Game of Thrones, The Good Doctor and Captain Marvel: actor Chuku Modu Chuku Modu, born in 1990 in Chiswick, west London, to a father of mixed Igbo and German heritage and an Anglo-Irish mother, is a British actor known for roles in Game of Thrones, The Good Doctor, The 100 and the 2019 Marvel film Captain Marvel.