Brown Girl in the ring by Boney M.
Celebration by Cool and the Gang.
Mamma Mia by Abba
Night to remember by Shalamar
Candy Girl by New Edition.
ABC by the Jackson 5.
Writing memoir evokes so much, the memories flood back with intensity. The familiar tunes of my childhood have been ringing in my ears as I’ve been writing with such clarity, that I often feel transported back to the Lagos of my youth – the Lagos of the 1970s and 1980s.
What songs and sounds have come flooding back for you as you’ve been writing?

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