Queen of Glory, writer, director, and star Nana Mensah eloquently captures what happens when you are forced to face the place you left behind in order to figure out who you truly are.
In the film, Mensah stars as Sarah Obeng, a doctoral candidate at Columbia University. She has worked to distance herself from the Ghanaian-American community where she was raised in the Bronx.
Sarah spends her days grading papers, eating takeout, and sneaking around with her married boyfriend of three years, Lyle (Adam Leon).
When she does return to her old neighborhood, it is only out of obligation to appease her pushy aunties who constantly comment on her weight and singleness, or to ship her estranged father Godwin (Oberon K.A.
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