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Leave a memory of him
If he touched your life with a hike, a conversation, a kindness, please share a few words. They’ll live here for his family to read.
/ Step 1
What was your relationship with him?
Choose what feels closest, or describe it yourself.
/ Who he was
A life lived with curiosity
Gershon Ogbuluijah was born in Ataba, Andoni, Rivers State, Nigeria. A Pan-African traveller, writer, and thinker, he carried a quiet conviction that the continent’s stories were best told by those willing to walk its paths.
His interests roamed widely. Engineering, property development, event management, and photography. But it was the outdoors that called him loudest. A long-distance runner and tireless hiker, he stood on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in 2022, one of many quiet triumphs he chose to share with the people he loved.
Beyond Africa, his journeys took him to the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. He always returned home with a sharper eye and a fuller heart.
He gave generously of himself to his community. At the time of his passing he was leading an environmental conservation effort to plant 2,000 trees in his community of Ataba. A quiet promise to the generations that would follow him.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Justina Ogbuluijah, their four children, and the countless lives his curiosity, kindness and conviction touched along the way.
/ All the things he was
/ Moments
Glimpses of a life
/ His words
Two books, two lifetimes of seeing
2020 / autobiography
Serial Survivor
The autobiography of a man with nine lives.
2025 / memoir
What My Feet Saw
A memoir. An African’s journey through Africa.
/ A quiet gesture
Light a candle in his memory