From jollof rice to soft drinks in glass bottles and Cabin biscuits, Chimezie Imo’s birthday photoshoot takes a fun trip back to ’90s Nigerian celebrations.
Do you remember how birthdays used to be celebrated back then? Gen Z, you might want to sit this one out — no amount of memory-jogging will help here because you simply weren’t around. No shade at all. Millennials, though, will know exactly what this is about.
Chimezie Imo recently turned a year older, and his birthday photoshoot was a nostalgic trip back to the early 1990s. Not the version we recreate on mood boards, but the real thing: birthdays documented in family albums and bound together by food, colour, and simple joy.
Behind him hangs a bright “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” banner, with blue, magenta and yellow pennant flags stretched across a warm beige backdrop. In front, a table covered with a white cloth carries a generous tray of jollof rice, topped with fried fish, beef and chicken, a proper Nigerian birthday spread, taking the place of a cake.
Nearby are glass bottles of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite, alongside packets of Cabin biscuits. If this doesn’t spark recognition, you’re probably not a millennial.
Chimezie looks the part in a cream blazer worn open over a white dress shirt, a black necktie resting loosely at the collar, paired with black trousers. And then there’s the smile — wide, easy and unmistakably birthday-coded.
It’s familiar in the best way. The kind of celebration many of us grew up with, remembered through shared meals, bright banners and photos that still live somewhere at home.
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