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All of them. Every scene has a synopsis, and I basically had to throw away the dialogue. You have a synopsis, and you have where it needs to go next, and where it comes from. It’s great, because everyone is natural.

— Rungano Nyoni

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People engage with the subject better through humour than through telling them, ‘This is bad.

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