Thursday, April 25, 2024

My first love: Joke Silva

I met my husband at the National Theatre while we were rehearsing for Jero’s Metamorphosis by Professor Wole Soyinka in 1981.

The first time I met him, if I could remember vividly, I went to call Miss Ene to come watch our rehearsal. But they were having a production meeting. When I entered the office, the first thing he uttered was, “This is the woman I am going to marry.”

When I left the office, I said to myself, “How can anybody say it just like that?” He always insisted that I eyed him every now and then. We started out as very good friends. Four years later we got married. We met in 1981 and married in 1985

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