![]() ![]() Lola is an attractive independent, confident young woman who likes to hang out with her three best friends. The novel is a typical boy-meets-girl story but fused with twists and turns, interfering relatives, jealous friends, unexpected deaths and more than a few secrets, lies and revelations along the way. So it was my pleasure to read Nothing Comes Close, a debut novel by Tolulope Popoola, which is everything an African movie delivers but in literary form. The endless plots, the melodrama, the jokes especially the unintentional ones, the depiction of everyday African life and culture, I find fascinating as well as really very entertaining. They are one of many guilty pleasures that I have. What first started as a bit of daughterly indulgence towards my mum, actually became a point of slight obsession for me because I found these movies really addictive and if I’m honest, still do. A few years back when my mum still lived in the UK, I had a Sunday ritual of going to her place for lunch and then settling down to watch a Ghanaian movie or two, that she had just bought or a Nollywood movie on OBE. ![]()
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