T H E H I S T O R Y O F J. A. G R E E N Jonathan Adagogo Green (1873-1905), an Ibani man from the ancient great grand Bonny kingdom. Grand Bonny Kingdom is a kingdom with high profile men. Jonathan Adagogo Green is Nigeria’s first prolific photographer. The son of a successful Ibani (Ijaw) palm oil trader Chief Sunju Dublin Green, he attended the Church Missionary Society [CMS] High School in Bonny. It is believed that he went on to Forabay College in Sierra Leone and studied photography. There is conjecture that his father’s close working relationships with expatriate traders and missionaries may have greatly benefitted his career. Nonetheless he served “as the primary photographer for the British, as well as his own people, between the early 1890s and 1905. As the first professional photographer of Nigerian birth, Jonathan Adagogo Green (1873-1905), can be seen as an important voice for Nigeria’s early moder...
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