We Missed the Boat so We Could take the Plane
the continent’s first-ever crime thriller mini-series based on Agenda 2063
Executive Producer: KUINTESS5NCE COMMS
By E K Bensah jr
The Story so Far
After 20 episodes of writing and producing (episodes are podcast-ready) the continent’s first-ever crime thriller mini-Series based on Agenda 2063, I thought it was important to give an update to those just discovering it. I needed to make chops and changes how it initially started out (mostly letter writing of the protagonist to his Uncle Kwame) so as to lend it an air of gravitas. Here are 7 things to know about this mini-Series:
đź“ŤWhile a continental crime thriller, with the protagonist’s travels to Kenya/South Africa/ Ghana, etc, it is set in Addis, which large city lends it a gritty realism for a thriller.
đź“ŤThe protagonist is one fictional Mendacity “Milk” Mensah, who a trained negotiator-turned-detective, with commendable law enforcement experience at AFRIPOL, the AU’s technical agency for African police cooperation. Although the real AFRIPOL is based in Algiers, Mendacity is based in Addis as he is also a part-time AFRIPOL liasion officer at Ghana High Commission there.
đź“ŤThe mini-series is written in real time to reflect as many current continental developments as possible
đź“ŤEach of Mendacity’s colleagues populating the fictitious Special Crimes Unit has a (dark) past, which always comes back to haunt each of them in the course of their investigations:
📍The just-concluded 3-parter “ Gone Girl: Into the Good Night” is the first part of a broader arc of sub-plots that help enrich the story-telling.
📍Mendacity and the SCU stories remain part of a broader strategy to help African youth and other followers appreciate the complexity of the continent, and how policing its age-old underbelly (corruption; kidnappings; ritual murder; blood minerals; bad governance) need to be confronted in a way that ends up on the big screen across the continent. If the 2005 film “The Interpreter” (starring Nicole Kidman & Sean Penn) told the story of a fictitious UN interpreter, and was filmed at the actual headquarters of the UN, it must be possible for next generation of African filmmakers to tell stories around the AU and many of its institutions – and have them filmed in some of these AU institutions as well.
đź“ŤAvailable for reading on my linkedin/IG platforms for now. Will soon be available on www.ecowasbusinessnews.com
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