The show’s characters include Harvard Business School graduate Sade (Nana Mensah), American aid worker Ngozi (Esosa E), Makena, an Oxford-educated lawyer (Ghanaian-Australian actress Marie Humbert), and entrepreneur Zainab (Maame Adjei). They’re all so-called ‘returnees’ who’ve moved to the Ghanaian capital Accra after growing up abroad.

Episodes touch on some of the more frustrating aspects of living in a developing world city. The roads are bad, there are constant electricity blackouts and the mobile phone networks drop out with frustrating regularity.

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There are thornier issues too. Makena, the lawyer, is propositioned during a job interview. Journalist NanaYaa discovers Ghana’s overheated real estate market, and the fact that most Accra landlords expect at least a year's rent up front before handing over the keys. She dates an older man and seriously considers letting him buy her a flat, because her friend Sade, a banker, does it all the time. Later in that episode, Sade runs into her sugar daddy at a hair salon and discovers she’s not the only beneficiary of his largesse.

Homecoming queens

“If the show is doing one thing right, it shows women purposefully navigating their sexuality and their desire for a kind of sexual power,” says Rita Nketiah, a PhD student who studies return migration at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Many critics have balked at the show’s focus on wealthy African women, when ordinary Ghanaians face more fundamental challenges. The show plays out in pricy apartments, trendy bars and posh restaurants, places most people in Accra can't afford to visit.