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British actress Michaela Coel has taken her American Vogue cover to the streets of Accra.<\/p>\n
Coel, who has been cast in Marvel’s blockbuster Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is Vogue’s November cover star – and she chose to have the photoshoot in her ancestral home, Ghana, alongside her father, Derek Kwesi Coel, and grandmother Jemima Andam.<\/p>\n
She was photographed by Senegalese-Italian model Malick Bodian.<\/p>\n
“They asked me where I’d like to shoot it and I though to myself ‘shoot for the stars aim for the moon’, and I said ‘Ghana’, and they were like ‘sure’.”<\/p>\n
Speaking to Vogue about a previous visit to Ghana in 2018, Coel said: \u201cI\u2019d been to Africa before – Kenya and Uganda – but when I came here, I was really seeing people who looked like me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember looking at all the kids playing, and it hit me, like, Wow, this could\u2019ve been me and I think I would have really enjoyed that,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, there are a lot of sad things, poverty, unemployment, struggle. There\u2019s also a lot of peace, friendliness. There\u2019s a lack of anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her Vogue interview Coel also spoke about her upcoming role in Black Panther where her character falls in love with her warrior colleague, played by Florence Kasumba.<\/p>\n
“That sold me on the role, the fact that my character\u2019s queer,\u201d Coel said. \u201cI thought: I like that, I want to show that to Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coel was born and raised in East London after her parents emigrated from Ghana. She is most famous for writing, directing and starring in the comedy-drama series I May Destroy You.<\/p>\n
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