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Let us quickly consider a few names: Charles Ponzi – Italian Bernie Madoff – American Jurgen Mossack – German Ramon Fonseca – Panamanian Invictus Obi – Nigerian What do these names have in common? Fraud! Mossack Fonseca & Co was... Read More
When Todd Philips’ The Joker was released in the first week of October, it was like a much awaited joke of the year. But then it arrived and there was almost nothing to laugh about because of the political leaning... Read More
Tope Oshin’s cinematic tour de force, Up North, made its Netflix debut on Friday October 18, 2019. To commemorate the outing, TLR presents a review of the rivetting film starring Banky W. Niran Adedokun was indeed on to something when... Read More
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Music Reviews
It appears a new guard of crooners have been thrust upon us—and old hands that came into their own after 2010—the likes of Olamide, Wizkid, Davido should start preparing their hand-over notes. Fireboy DML, Crayon, Rema and Joeboy, T-Classic, and... Read More
Zlatan Abeg No Kill Us, aka Zanku, began its commercial appeal first as a dance, then as a song, before it became a humorous warning, then lent itself to the album title of the eponymous and enterprising Zlatan. Before we... Read More
Freshly coronated at the struggling Headies, Teni is, without a doubt, the biggest discovery of contemporary Nigerian music in the past one year. Hence, her first EP was highly anticipated. Ambitiously called Billionaire and comprised of 6 tracks lasting 19 minutes,... Read More
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Book Reviews
Tunde Leye’s Afonja: The Rise is a well written piece of historical fiction. It chronicles the story of a society in transition. Crises engulf the society after a despotic prime minister enthrones and kills kings in quick succession. The entire... Read More
For a country perched on the horn of a continent, it is easy for Eritrea to slip into the ocean of forgetting. But through the sheer force of prose, Sulaiman Addonia’s sophomore novel, Silence is My Mother Tongue (Indigo Press,... Read More
A memoir is like a book without a real ending. It is like a sneeze held in abeyance, a bomb that does not become because a memoir is really no more than a series of accounts from a life still... Read More
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