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Movie Reviews

For a movie that runs for two hours, its pacing is incredibly rushed, with timelines not clearly delineated. Jaiye proposes to Adaora within two months of dating her, and they get married with very little on-screen chemistry allowed to truly develop. What is even more implausible is how such a successful business woman is forced into such a naïve and juvenile arrangement, where she cannot spot the glaring ulterior motive, external pressures be damned.

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Music Reviews

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Book Reviews

Through their entangled stories, Theft becomes more than a tale of love or parental betrayal. It is a sociological portrait of Zanzibar and, by extension, Africa’s coastal societies, where the residues of colonialism still shape personal destinies. The novel situates individual choices within the larger machinery of economic transformation, cultural expectation, and historical memory.

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Now based between Lagos and Toronto, Elsie is bringing a new kind of African digital storytelling to the world. She’s bilingual in culture, able to code-switch between Afrobeat street trends and Western pop references with ease. This ability to exist in multiple cultural spaces without diluting her message makes her relatable, magnetic, and globally relevant.

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