Maskers S1-2

Africa Magic’s series Maskers examines a friendship in which three social classes – the wealthy, the upper-middle class and the lower-class – clash. The series follows Mabel, Eunice and Rachel, three married women who have been friends since their undergraduate days but now live very different lives.

Mabel is married to a wealthy drug lord who runs several legit businesses to cover up his illegal activities, including the newly built NitSua Lounge, which she uses to pepper her friends.

Eunice’s husband used to be a top executive at one of the biggest telecommunications companies in Africa. He is currently unemployed, and they are struggling to pay rent. But she insists on maintaining her lifestyle to avoid ridicule from people on social media and Mabel, who enjoys humiliating broke people.

Then there is Rachel. She took care of both ladies during their undergraduate days, but now can’t wear clothes as fancy as her friends’ thanks to her teacher’s wage and marriage to a junior-level worker. She lives in a slum, wears cheap perfume, and is often at the receiving end of Mabel’s broke-shaming comments.

Maskers also tells their husbands’ stories, the wealthy drug lord, the now-unemployed business executive, and the average civil servant. All three of them have shady secrets that will alter their marriages and their wives’ view of them.

In Season Two, the drama continues with Rachel’s HIV status hanging in the balance, Mabel’s kidnapping arousing more suspicion, and Eunice’s husband’s philandering getting more complicated by the minute. In more ways than one, the show’s leading ladies continue to find new ways to show us that problem no dey finish.

The show is produced and directed by Victor Okpala (Disguise) and stars Uche Nwaefuna (Diana from Unbroken) Okey Uzoeshi (Battleground), Jimmy Odukoya (Ugo from E.V.E), and Anthony Monjaro (Last Flight to Abuja)