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We were tired and frustrated. We were the future when the Nokia 3310 was king, and phones had more keys than screen, when the internet was accessed through stuffy rooms with numerous desktops and passwords that made no sense; but that was long ago. The Blackberry rose and fell, smartphones are all screens and no ...

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If one prods the origins of most great works of art, one will find they were created to exorcise or archive a memory. Okigbo does the latter for Kepkanly, a school teacher. Adichie, it can be argued, wrote Half of a Yellow Sun (at least in part) to re-exorcise the collective tribal memory of the ...

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