Jahrock Ujewe

Writer

Jahrock Ujewe is a poet, and a broadcast journalist and reporter, with over twelve years working experience on radio and television. He began writing poetry during his senior secondary school days. Born in the early 1980s, Jahrock hails from Emede, an oil-producing community, in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. He studied English and Literature at the prestigious University of Benin on Shell Scholarship from 2005 to 2009.

Drawing directly from his own journalistic career travelling from one place to the other, sometimes separated from family and friends, his poetry transforms personal sacrifice and experience into universal testimony. He is married with two kids, and he currently works as a Pidgin English Football Commentator on radio.