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Queen Sono: Netflix’s first African original series and its spy heroine Movies & TV Queen Sono: Netflix’s first African original series and its spy heroine Queen Sono, released in February 2020, was the first original series Netflix commissioned from Africa. Created by Kagiso Lediga and starring Pearl Thusi as a South African spy, it was renewed for a second season, then cancelled. Blood & Water: the Cape Town teen drama that became a Netflix global hit Movies & TV Blood & Water: the Cape Town teen drama that became a Netflix global hit Blood & Water, a South African Netflix original that premiered in May 2020, follows a Cape Town teenager who suspects a classmate is her sister, abducted at birth. Starring Ama Qamata and Khosi Ngema, it became one of Netflix's most watched African series.