Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, and Alex Ajayi at University College, Ibadan, 1959.

Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, and Alex Ajayi at University College, Ibadan, 1959. Okigbo, a renowned poet, would be dead eight years later at Nsukka, fighting as a Biafran Major during the Nigeria-Biafra War.