Biography
Gabriel Imomtimi Gbaingbain Okara, the son of an Ijọ chief, was born in Bomoundi in the Niger delta in 1921. He was educated at Government College, Umuahia, and later at Yaba Higher College. He studied journalism at Northwestern University in the late 1950s, and before the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War worked as Information Officer for the Eastern Nigerian Government Service.
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