Veteran broadcaster Kwame Sefa Kayi has recalled his first encounter with Ghanaian actress and media personality Felicity Ama Agyemang, popularly known as Nana Ama McBrown, saying her ability to handle heavy vehicles as a young woman immediately caught his attention.

The broadcaster shared the memory during an interview with McBrown, explaining that they first crossed paths on a movie set in Kumasi around 2004 or 2005, when she was still establishing herself as an actress.

Sefa Kayi said he initially noticed the young McBrown riding a motorbike and became curious about her identity. His surprise reportedly grew the following day when he saw her behind the wheel of a sand-filled tipper truck.

“I saw a very young girl on a motorbike and I was wondering if she was going to move it. I asked Morro who she was and he told me it was Nana Ama McBrown. Right then she started the bike and rode off. It was late in the evening. At the time, the only big car I had driven was a pickup truck. I looked at her quietly and thought she had her own challenge because it wasn’t common at the time,” he recalled.

Years later, Sefa Kayi said an encounter with a man named Kofi McBrown on Spintex Road unexpectedly provided the link that would bring him closer to the actress. He discovered during their conversation that Kofi was McBrown’s father.

“One day he told me Nana Ama was his daughter. I asked if it was that feisty girl, and he asked if I knew her. I said yes, I knew her, and the rest was history. That is the beautiful girl sitting across from me today,” he said.

McBrown, however, revealed that driving was not merely a skill she picked up casually. She had already spent about six years driving trucks by the time Sefa Kayi encountered her, having started in 1998 as part of her spare-parts business.

“The time you saw me, I had been driving the truck for about six years. I started driving in 1998. That was my business. I used to take spare parts to Côte d’Ivoire to sell,” she explained.

According to McBrown, her experience behind the wheel later became an unexpected pathway into acting. At a time when relatively few women in the industry could drive, her ability made her particularly suitable for roles requiring driving scenes.

“That is how I got the advantage into acting because when I joined, a lot of the women didn’t know how to drive. I got my first role through driving, and I used to show off with that skill. Before they wrote the script, they already had me in mind to play those roles,” she added.

What began as an unusual encounter on a Kumasi movie set eventually developed into a lasting relationship, with McBrown’s unconventional driving background becoming one of the skills that helped distinguish her during her early years in Ghana’s film industry.

Watch the interview below:

@gists_online Chairman General, Kwame Sefa Kayi takes a trip down memory lane, recalling the first time he met @Her Excellency Nana A McBrown on a movie set and how he was amazed by her impressive ability to drive a truck for a role she played years ago #gistsonline ♬ original sound – Gists Online

Source: Yvonne Nyarko Agyemang