Chika Jones

Chika Jones is a performance poet living in Rochester, Kent. Recently endorsed by the Arts Council of England in 2021, he received the Global Talent Visa and relocated to the UK. Chika’s past performances include the British Billingual Poetry Collective in 2022 and he is currently working on a Poetry translation to a British Sign Language project. Chika also hosts Medway Poetry Nights, which is a monthly gathering of poets and poetry lovers

In 2013, he won a National poetry slam ‘War of Words’ and has been on some of the biggest stages ever since. In 2014, he was a guest performer for the Wole Soyinka at 80 cultural exchange, and in that same year, he was selected to attend the Caine Prize Short Story workshop for the Port Harcourt Book festival. Between 2015 and 2019 he has performed poetry at the Lagos Book and Arts Festival, Lagos International Poetry Festival, Ake Arts and Book Festival. In 2017, he performed as part of the poetry production ‘Finding Home’ which toured Berlin, Germany, and Lagos, Nigeria.

Chika is part of Lyrici Arts Homeward Artist Academy and the upcoming Soul Food Solo Stories production, where he will perform 'The Receipt Collector'.