Essayist and author of ‘From Glamour Girls to Nolly Babes: Nollywood Nostalgia and the Modern Nigerian Woman’, Merlin Uwalaka, finds it ‘ridiculous that there are Nigerians who are proud to say that they do not watch Nigerian movies.’
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