Michaela Coel planning to build a house in Ghana

She’s an iconic Londoner, but now Michaela Coel is broadening her horizons. Coel, pictured, recently lived in Ghana for six months and the trial run seems to have gone well. Now she tells Vogue of her plans to build a house in a village there where her father lives. She is also considering a flat in Accra, the capital. Her first visit to Ghana was a filming trip for the series Black Earth Rising. She says “when I came here I was really seeing people who looked like me” and remembers “walking around as if I knew where I was going”. Coel was born in east London to Ghanaian parents and her breakthrough projects, Chewing Gum and I May Destroy You, were both set here. Wherever she goes, she’ll always be a Londoner.