# @udohcharles on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DUkylsCiGFm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/63425803-udohcharles-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/59eb936f9e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-02-10T10:57:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Charles Sebastian Udoh (@udohcharles) — https://gondola.cc/udohcharles

## Caption

🔦🔍👀Find Me in the Picture 👀

Throwback to Class 1A, secondary school days at West African People’s Institute (WAPI), Calabar — when men were boys and life was blissfully simple.

That’s us with our Mathematics teacher and class teacher, Mr. Commey (a Ghanaian — hope I got the spelling right).
Uniforms neatly pressed, haircuts strictly regulated, and almost everyone rocking Cortina shoes by Bata — not just school shoes, but certified football boots after classes ⚽️.
Some wore the school sandals by Lennards, but real ballers chose Cortina. No debates.

A quick throwback note:
In the 1960s up to the 1980s, Bata was a household name in Nigeria, manufacturing durable, affordable footwear locally and shaping what generations of students wore to school — and to the pitch. Lennards was equally iconic, producing the sturdy brown school sandals that defined official school wear across the country. These brands were proud symbols of Nigeria’s once-thriving local manufacturing era.

I’m tempted to mention the exact year this photo was taken… but some people will quickly brand me an ancestor 😄😄

📸 Find me in the photograph.
No hints.
No arrows.
Just memories.

When men were boys… and tomorrow felt very far away.

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## Tags

wapi, madeinnigeria, class1a, cortinadays, throwback, localmanufacturing, schooldays, nostalgia, 60sto80s, batashoes, whenmenwereboys, calabarmemories, naijamemories, findmeinthepicture, goodolddays, schoollife

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