Jerry Chiemeke

Romeo Oriogun has always regarded his life as some form of “protest”, and in many ways, he’s not far from the truth.

In 1997, a young Ike Nnaebue, along with free of his friends, left Lagos, Nigeria for a journey across West Africa, hoping to get into Europe by road (and ultimately) by sea, but a fortuitous encounter at Mali’s capital city caused him to make a detour, one that would change the trajectory of his life forever.