By Onoise Osunbor
(First published in Sunday Concord, February 21, 1988)
“If there is one achievement I have successfully accomplished, it is to prove wrong the myth that you cannot be a successful journalist and be a born-again Christian.” These are the words of Dimgba Igwe, the Sunday Concord Staff Writer among the prizewinners at the first UAC Merit Award for Journalists.
People often perceive journalists as permissive, loving wine and women, but that is not the life of Dimgba who is deeply religious—a real born-again Christian. Stylistically, he is an impressionistic writer who applies his pen like a brush in the hands of a painter, carrying the reader along as he tells his story. One of his works is a masterpiece he wrote on Dakar, the capital of Senegal. And he wrote it without talking to anyone. He says: “The story I have done that I am likely to read over and over again is the one on Dakar.
