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BlackStar 2025: ‘Leaving Ikorodu in 1999’ Review (Short Film)

by Ini-Abasi Jeffrey

BlackStar: In the Rashida Seriki-written and directed short film, nostalgia is a vehicle both literally and figuratively. The couple drive through Lagos in a vintage Mercedes Benz revisiting the past through symbolic stops like the […]