Young, Famous & African is now streaming on Netflix

Johannesburg, 18 March 2022:  Reality TV fiends UNITE! Netflix’s first unscripted African reality series Young, Famous & African premieres today, Friday, 18 March with seven sizzling episodes following the continent’s biggest and baddest personalities.

Young, Famous & African features stars from South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda as they manoeuvre tempestuous love lives, feuds and demanding careers in the city of bling, Johannesburg. Not short of the soft life and ‘shots fired’, the show gives fans a ringside view of African celebrity at its most dramatic, charismatic and extravagant. This all-African reality series includes power-couple 2baba and Annie Macaulay-Idibia, celebrity stylist Swanky Jerry, actress Khanyi Mbau, musician Diamond Platnumz, rapper Nadia Nakai, businesswoman Zari ‘The Bosslady’ Hassan, broadcaster and TV producer Andile Ncube, and radio jockey Naked DJ.

Series Cast & Crew

• Production house: Urban Brew Studios

• Co-Creators and Executive Producers: Peace Hyde, Martin Asare Amankwa (Ghana) and Adelaide Joshua Hill (South Africa)

• Episode count: 7

• Starring:

  • Khanyi Mbau

  • Diamond Platnumz 

  • Annie Macaulay-Idibia 

  • 2Baba 

  • Zari the Boss Lady

  • Naked DJ

  • Nadia Nakai

  • Swanky Jerry

  • Andile Ncube 

  • Kayleigh Schwark

Synopsis:

This reality series follows a crew of famed, affluent stars as they work and play, flirt and feud in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Netflix’s first African reality show, Young, Famous & African is set to launch in March 2022, and it’s coming in HOT! – Urban Street Culture