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		<title>My first ever ‘waka-pass’ role in a music video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No one is exactly certain where it started or with which artiste it did. Somewhere in the process of reinventing itself, the Nigerian music video industry happened on a smart idea; get friends, contemporaries, well wishers to feature for free in your music video eliminating huge models’ appearance fees. This intro is for eagle-eyed family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/music/2010/04/my-first-ever-%e2%80%98waka-pass%e2%80%99-role-in-a-music-video/</link>
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		<title>Keep Your Chin Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; thanks to my ‘helpful’ yet Mad Urban Bus Driver Eka’abo, Nno, Sanu da zuwa, Akwaaba. It’s finally here! My blog and online diary… of sorts. In this cyberspace, I’m not restrained by the ethics of professionalism (my day job is journalism; my passion is written words) nor am I curtailed by the boundaries of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/featured-articles/2010/04/keep-your-chin-up/</link>
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		<title>Djinee&#8217;s Metamorphosis: an Album Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was requested to review this soulful singer’s album after its recent release and here is a reproduction. If Djinee asked me to make three wishes that he were obliged to grant, they would be… 1. Sing! 2. Keep singing!! 3. Pleeeeez sing some more!!! Delivering timeless romantic lyrics with the timbre of an operatic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/review/2010/03/djinees-metamorphosis-an-album-review/</link>
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		<title>Are We A Convincing Hip-Hop Culture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post–Mortem of Hennessy Artistry 09 Hennessy Artistry 2009 birthed three weeks of electrifying live performances from five of Nigeria’s urban music nascent artistes. Courtesy Hennessy, world renowned cognac makers, these burgeoning musicians took their stage craft on a circuit of top-billed club locations around the brimming city of Lagos.The definitive goal..? Discovering which one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/featured-articles/2010/03/are-we-a-convincing-hip-hop-culture/</link>
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		<title>Live and Let Live: Behold &#8216;Naija&#8217; Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A raging debate broke out in July 2009 after Reuben Abati journalist, social activist and educator, wrote his famous (or infamous depends on your side of the coin) article about the music industry and the harmful effects of our lyrics. He also talked about the decadence of our generation (which I hear he is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/music/2010/03/live-and-let-live-behold-naija-music/</link>
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		<title>21st Century Naija Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ingenuity or Utter Crap? I&#8217;m excited about Nigerian music for very good reasons. I have been listening hard to our artistes in recent times and if my auditory organs are still functioning in tandem with my brain, our musical art is qualitatively gearing itself to compete massively on a global scale. Some justified cynics might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/music/2010/03/21st-century-naija-music-ingenuity-or-utter-crap/</link>
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		<title>Analyzing the Lyricist&#8217;s Paradigm Shift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Days after his new album was released, Rapper Modenine and I met up for an informal interview at the Excalibur Lounge, G.R.A Ikeja. Over drinks and background music, we had a very stimulating conversation which I recaptured in prose. Out of sheer curiosity, I asked rapper ModeNine what ‘rut’ pattern he wanted to see filled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/music/2010/03/analyzing-the-lyricists-paradigm-shift/</link>
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		<title>Avant Garde Versus The Archaic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How different is the old from the new? Just as the earth revolves on its axis, never drifting out of orbit so trends and cultures never change. They simply become modified.

Crown Troupe of Africa, under the directorial leadership of Segun Adefila gave a rousing stage performance of ‘The Divorce of Lawino &#038; Ochol’ a dance-drama adaptation of Obot p’Bitek’s poems. Written into play form by Chinweizu, Adefila’s troupe had a two-day showing, 23rd and 24th August 2008 at Studio 868, Victoria Island, Lagos. Reminiscent of Lakunle and Sidi’s Shenanigans in Wole Soyinka’s masterpiece ‘The Lion and the Jewel’, theatre audience were captivated and amused by the intertwining dramatisations in ‘the Divorce of Lawino &#038; Ochol’ till the curtains dropped.]]></description>
		<link>http://soldier-girl.com/arts/2010/03/avant-garde-versus-the-archaic/</link>
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