Chaos. Courage. Coming of Age in 1980s Nigeria.
Dropped at boarding school at 9, fresh from a family crisis, Ayiba-Tare Raine enters the wild world of FGCI—iron bucket in hand, fried chicken in serviette.
No guides. No mercy. Just the unfiltered madness of Unity School life.
If you survived flogging, food queues, metal bunks, NEPA nights, and still dream in housewear colours—this memoir is your mirror.
Nostalgic. Honest. Hilarious.
Ijanikin Chronicles is for every Gen X Nigerian who lived the real 80s.
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Come for the memories. Stay for the story.
Ayiba-Tare Raine is a creative genius who enjoys telling stories about all facets of life.
Born to Lt. Alfred Ajayi Anuwe Raine and Rosannah Tunde Raine, Tare, as he is fondly called, is the 6th child of 9 children for Lt A.A.A. Raine and the fourth child for his mother Rosannah.
As a young child, Tare showed early love for everything about books, comics and magazines. By age 7, he was reading editorials in newspapers as a pastime. His creative imagination always left his siblings wondering what he would end up becoming later in Life.
That pathway took him from Command Children School Yaba to Federal Government College Ijanikin, then to the University of Ibadan, where he studied Teacher Education Zoology/Chemistry. The period after his first degree was very instructive for Tare; his one-year NYSC stint was spent as a teacher at Teachers College Toro in Bauchi State. The time spent there helped him find a specific direction for his life – Arts and the media.
Immediately after his NYSC service year, he continued his role as keyboardist at The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, something he had started while in his first year of Uni at the young age of 17. He continued actively playing till 2001. In 1997, he started work at MindVision Productions under the tutelage of the Genius Yole Akinnawo. Tare worked with Yole till 1999 as a staff member but continued collaborative work with the creative genius till his death in 2003.
From the year 2000 till 2016 he worked in various media and production companies like Jungle Filmworks, Ultima Studios, Inspire Africa studios, working on various ground breaking shows like Gulder Ultimate Search 1,2,4,5,6,7, Star Quest, Maltina Dance-All, Star Game Show, Moments With Mo, Project Fame, various documentaries and films as Editor, Senior Editor and Post-Production supervisor. He has also worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Media Department, School of Media and Communications, Pan Atlantic University, Lagos, from 2008 to 2015.
The last three decades have seen him working in various fields across two continents, from the screen/media industry to social service and humanities. He now brings this vibrant energy into storytelling, writing stories that elevate our African heritage.
