Thread: New story from this reporter: Brazen Women. Scandalized Viewers. It’s ‘Sex and the City,’ Senegal Style.https://nyti.ms/31PbZom
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“Mistress of a Married Man” is a hugely popular new television series in Senegal that has set off a fierce debate over contemporary womanhood in a largely Muslim nation.
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It was a real honor to report this story, because it allowed me the opportunity to speak with dozens of people in and around Dakar about complex interpersonal issues: marriage, love, sex, a woman’s role in Senegalese society.
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Thank you to everyone who shared with me.
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The show is the brainchild of Kalista Sy, 34, a former television journalist in Senegal who wrote the pilot after typing “How do you write a script?” into Google.
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Kalista told me that her north star is Shonda Rhimes, creator of hits like Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal.
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But the show is also distinctly Senegalese.
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Kalista's characters, at her direction, favor Senegalese designers — NuNu, Sisters of Afrika — and natural hairstyles. They reject the practice of skin bleaching.
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They also speak Wolof, the language preferred by many in what is officially a Francophone nation.
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