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Last published Fri, Sep 4, 2020
Enter the mind of 19 year old Zidaobi Ekere as she returns to Lagos for the first times after leaving for New York three years ago.
To save herself, her last resort was to come back home for December, the wildest month in the city.
She learns, she loves and she looses, several times.
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