[1] After graduating from Hood College in 2015, she received a scholarship to study acting at Rutgers University and earned her master's degree in 2019.
[5] In 2014, Boafo began portraying Nana Yaa in Nicole Amarteifio's web TV series An African City.
Her character is a journalist who struggles to afford rent in Accra, analogous to Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City.
Boafo noticed the role on a Facebook page, and because she was travelling she sent a videotaped audition to Amarteifio, who called a week later.
[6] In 2014, she starred in Bus Nut, an experimental short film in which she read the words from the trial of Rosa Parks.