How EbonyLife Founder Mo Abudu Kicked Down Doors To Bring African Stories To Netflix, AMC & Sony
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deadline.comMo Abudu attempted to crack Hollywood for years, but her steely belief that the world needed to hear African stories was met with resounding silence.
Emails went unanswered, leads from a trip to Los Angeles quickly went cold. Abudu, a megastar in Nigeria with her own chat show and TV network, grew frustrated.Then, one day, her Lagos office got a call from a Sony Pictures Television sales executive wanting to sell Abudu’s network, EbonyLife TV, an international television format.
It proved to be her Sidney Lumet moment. “I said to my head of programming, ‘Tell him we’re not effing interested in any bloody format!
I’m sick and tired of someone trying to ram all these stories down our throats. You tell him, we’ve got stories we want to sell to
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