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Shaitan: Telekinesis and Arodan Review – Michael Kolawole
...Brymo returns with a two-in-one album
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Nollywoodʼs suffering mother, in its earliest and most honest incarnations, had something of the former. In most of its contemporary iterations and certainly in its most commercially successful one, it has become the latter. The mother suffers, the children unite, the audience weeps, the credits roll, the naira accumulates...
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