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Nov 2017
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'Thunder and Lightning' | feat. Yetide ...

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Yetide Badaki ("American Gods") and Dayo Okeniyi ("Shades of Blue") star in this Nigerian folktale about thunder and lightning and how they found their home in the sky.

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