Nigeria’s Comics Pull Punch Lines From Deeper Social Ills

In a nation troubled by corruption, blackouts and the scourge of Boko Haram, stand-up comics are mining the misery for laughs and are more popular than ever. [Source]

Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Power Failures and Blackouts

Topics: popular, laughs, misery, mining, comics, stand-up, Haram, scourge, blackouts, corruption, troubled, nation, Social, Deeper, Lines, Punch, Comics, Nigeria’s

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