JOKES APART

Stand-up comedy has become big and serious business in Nigeria and Julius Chinweikpe Agwu aka Julius D'Genius Agwu is one of the leading lights of that industry. Born in 1973 in Choba to Mary Welebor and Augustine Wamadi Agwu: a trader mother and a bricklayer father who were imbued with the gift of comedy, Julius was a precocious child who displayed, early, the gifts of dance, acting and comedy. "Jokes Apart... How did I get here?" is, therefore, at once, the story of a family and their son, Julius It is a chronicle of a young man's journey of discovery, his coming of age and realization of God-given potential. Here is Julius D'Genius Agwu: unedited and unadorned as he chronicles in lucid prose and unaffected narrative his journey of hope and determination from the rustic village of Choba to the glittering stages of Lagos, London and New York.