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'Gut-wrenching' film wins Ghanaian heartspublished at 12:29 Greenwich Mean Time 2 December 2022

12:29 GMT 2 December 2022

Mark Wilberforce
BBC Focus on Africa radio

The producer of award-winning film Borga, which has just started streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime, has told the BBC that its reception was markedly different in Ghana and Germany - the two countries in which it is set.

“The film is a Ghanaian film in that it is in Twi, but it’s not a typical Ghanaian film in that it’s not a slap-stick comedy; it’s not a supernatural comedy; it’s not a romantic comedy - it’s an emotionally driven film about subject matter that is very dear to Ghanaians,” Danny Damah says.

It has allowed Ghanaians to see themselves on the big screen following a widespread ambition to travel overseas - in this case to Germany “where the Western dream is actually a nightmare”, he says.

“Borga” is a word used to describe a Ghanaian who has travelled abroad and returns, trying to keep up a lavish lifestyle.

Damah says the word is short for Hamburg, a city in Germany: “In the 80s there were so many Ghanaians that migrated to Hamburg and when they returned to Ghana they were obviously very wealthy and really

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