SOAP OPERA 🚿
By the ending of 1966, I was living my best life in the bustling University town of Nsuka. After completing my two year apprenticeship under the tutelage of the legendary Emeka Okoye at Onitsha, I had opened a photography studio close to the University of Nigeria, the very first studio there. Every single photograph around the town,from the matriculating students with their bell bottom trousers ,afro styled haircuts and MaryJane shoes to the traditional marriages and weddings all had my insignia ," J.I OKAGUE PHOTOS" inscribed on them. 2 years later, everything changed with the Biafran insurrection. Within two years i had left the fallen Nsuka after watching my 4 year old studio turn into a rubble to flee to my friends house at Abakpa before i trekked all the way with some Onitsha traders who were running away too for three blistering days till we reached my hometown Nando. The calamitous sound of advancing gunfire, bombings and airstrikes kept on dict