The 76th Berlin International Film Festival concluded on Saturday with İlker Çatak’s “Yellow Letters” taking home the prestigious Golden Bear, according to an indiewire.com report. The ceremony, presided over by jury president Wim Wenders, brought a...
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Aside from its focus on the persistent pull of depression and suicidal thoughts, the film also shows how younger people battling depression and other mental health challenges seek support through social media like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Facebook to help themselves heal. While occasionally helpful, these groups often devolve into corrosive and illogical spots for peer pressure, where suicidal tendencies are encouraged and reinforced.
By the time the album closes with “Wild Goose Chase,” exhaustion has set in for Brymo. Tired of his foolish, hopeless search for love, relevance, and the pursuit of happiness, he pleads that the mirage should be taken from him. Sung in Yoruba and Nigerian Pidgin, "Wild Goose Chase” transitions to become “Arodan”, the title and opening track on the Yoruba segment of Shaitan. Serving as a link, the song neatly ties the albums together, indicating that they are one.
Lyrically, the album resists tidy interpretation. Shallipopi prefers suggestion to clarity, repetition to exposition. Phrases loop until they begin to feel hypnotic, as though meaning might eventually reveal itself through repetition an observation that one might also make about Omah Lay. It may seem like laziness, but it is a strategy. “Laho” is a quintessential example. The repetition of the word “Laho” makes it an ear worm and a global hit.
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Jideonwo leans into this rule, but then, as if looking to validate his struggles, he constantly makes reference to the experiences of various celebrity guests who have graced his #WithChude talk show. In social interactions, he would be called a name-dropper. In print, these insertions come off as cross-promotion and shortchange the book’s efficacy as a memoir.
Some authors mine their lived experiences for inspiration and indeed, Hollist’s own life has been shaped by migration. Born in Freetown, he spent part of his childhood in London, pursued postgraduate education in Nova Scotia, and is currently resident in Florida, where he is a professor of English at the University of Tampa. He might be a citizen of the world
More Than A Crown offers a blend of both. Born in Kigali in 1999, Nishimwe is a member of the ‘Generation After’ — young Rwandans fortunate to not have witnessed the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but nonetheless shaped by its trauma. Her early childhood was marked by separation from her father, whose job as a member of the Rwandan Defence Force entails, ironically, reuniting families separated by the nation’s civil war
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Psychobabble Inc.: A review of Chude Jideonwo’s “How Depression Saved My Life” — Akumbu Uche
How Depression Saved My Life, Chude Jideonwo, 2025; Narrative Landscape Press, pp 348
