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Briggitte Appiah on starring in Netflix’s ‘Black Earth Rising,’ acting & modelling gigs

Ghanaian-Libyan actress and model, Briggitte Appiah exuded calm confidence and self-belief talking about her craft on a hot Thursday afternoon in the month of March in her Spintex Road apartment. It was the kind that would even make the biggest cynic a believer. “I believe in myself. I find insecurity and not believing in yourself unattractive. It’s an energy that puts people off,” explained Appiah to  livefmghana.com  during the interview. “It didn’t happen overnight; I had to work on it.” The interview was about Appiah’s nearly 15-year work in the entertainment industry in Ghana, and around the world. In 2018, Appiah nabbed the biggest gig as yet of her career – the role of a Rwandan Journalist in Netflix and BBC 2’s war crimes drama,  Black Earth Rising . The eight-part series shot partly in Ghana examines the prosecution of war criminals after the 1994 Rwanda genocide. It follows Kate Ashby (Michaela Coel) rescued as a young child during the genocide and ...