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Hot take: the sharpest Nollywood dialogue right now is in the YouTube films, not the streaming originals. Fight me in the responses.
Spent the morning in a record shop in Osu where the owner played me a 1974 highlife side I had never heard. Writing about it this week.
Early desert blues cassettes on a long drive out of Dakar. Some records only make sense with the windows down.
Reminder that the best guitar line in any highlife song is usually the one under the vocal, not the solo.