Brazil gets a taste of African soap opera

Brazil's own prime-time soap operas have long appeared on African television networks from Tunisia to South Africa, but now the South American giant is importing an African soap opera for the first time.

The Angolan soap Windeck will air on the TV Brasil network, says the Ministry of Racial Equality, which helped import the show.

First aired in 2012 and nominated for an International Emmy Award, Windeck is the intrigue-filled story of the scheming employees of a Luanda-based fashion magazine. It features a nearly all-black cast, with most of the characters portrayed as rich, successful and sophisticated.