By Uche Nworah (uchenworah@yahoo.com)
The eighties and nineties Nigeria belonged to actors and actresses who lighted up our TV screens with superb performances in soaps, TV dramas and shows such as Inside Out, Mirror in the Sun, Supple Blues, Behind the Clouds, Checkmate, Fortunes, Basi & Company, Ripples, New Masquerade, Fuji House of Commotion, The Village Headmaster, Cockcrow at Dawn, Second Chance, Tales By Moonlight (a children oriented show presented by Nkem Oseloka Orakwue) etc. These men and women became small screen gods and goddesses. I remember watching the likes of Barbara Soky deliver breathtaking performances first as Rosemary in the Rivers State Television (RSTV) produced soap - Inside Out, and later as Yinka Fawole in Lola Fani-Kayode's Mirror in the Sun, the soap opera that still ranks as one of the best to come out of Nigeria. Who didn't follow on screen and on the pages of soft-sell magazines at the time such as Prime People, Vintage People, Lawrence Akapa's infamous Top News magazine, May Ellen-Ezekiel's Classique Magazine, Lagos Life newspaper from the stable of Guardian newspapers etc (all defunt now) the lives of the cast including Clarion Chukwura who played the character Tinu, Uduak Umondak, Pastor Omawumi Michael Efueye (now the Pastor of the London Light House Parish of House on the Rock, HOTR Church in the UK) who played the character Tosan, Yinka Fawole's love interest in the soap.
Recall the longevity of shows such as Cock Crow at Dawn especially the acting skills of Bitrus (Sadiq Daba) and the laughter medicine served up weekly by the whole cast of New Masquerade including Chief (Dr.) Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo alias 4.30 (Chika Okpala), his screen wife Ovularia, Prince Jegede Sokoya (Claude Ake), Gringory (James Iroha), Clarus (Davis Ofor) and Akpeno (Christy Essien-Igbokwe).
Who will forget the forever raging battle of wits between Ann Haastrup (Ego Boyo) and Segun Kadiri (Richard Mofe-Damijo) in the Amaka Igwe directed soap - ...
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