Keme nzerem biography

Ejikeme George Nzerem is a Nigerian British American journalist, TV presenter and filmmaker best known for his work on the UK's Channel 4 News as a news anchor.
About Keme Nzerem.
Ejikeme George Nzerem is a Nigerian British American journalist, TV presenter and filmmaker best known for his work on the UK's Channel 4 News as a news anchor and reporter.

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Keme Nzerem

Nigerian British journalist

Ejikeme George Nzerem is a Nigerian British^[1] American journalist, TV presenter and filmmaker best known for his work on the UK's Channel 4 News as a news anchor and reporter.^[2] He joined the programme in 2001.

Early life

Nzerem was born in Lusaka, Zambia to a Nigerian father and American mother. He was brought up in Zambia, Northern Ireland, Yorkshire, and London.

Education

Nzerem went to his local secondary school in southeast London, Thomas Tallis^[3] comprehensive. In 1995 he received a first-class BA (hons) in Geography with African and Asian Studies from the University of Sussex, and in 2000 a PGDiP in Broadcast Journalism from City University.

Journalism, TV and media career

In 1998 after graduating from the University of Sussex Nzerem worked as a writer for the charity Comic Relief,^[4] and helped launch an anti racist education website called Britkid.^[5]

In 2000 while studying for his postgrad in Broadcast Journalism at City University Nzerem

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Keme Nzerem

BAFTA nominated Keme is one of the most recognisable faces on Channel 4. In the media world he’s a journalist, presenter and film-maker.

He’s also a dynamic conference host, and has years of experience chairing and MCing complex multi day events involving keynotes, panels, and audience participation.

Washington – Moscow – Johannesburg – Rio – London – for the past two decades Keme has reported from around the globe on wide ranging issues from corruption, politics, and human rights – to sport. Keme’s work and his stories are known for nuance and sensitivity and have included major stories such as the Grenfell fire, paedophiles in football, World Cups & Olympic Games, the election of Barack Obama, and Hurricane Katrina.

Keme presented Channel 4 News’ BAFTA nominated Black to Front day coverage, which aimed to elevate Black stories and Black production staff. He’s also an RTS Journalism Award winner – narrating a film about the US troop surge in Iraq in 2007.

Keme is a trustee for the Ethical Journalism Networ

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How Achebe and Marley inspired a London teenager

It feels odd to fete Bob Marley and Chinua Achebe in the same sentence, but fete them in very similar ways I do.

Marley’s accessible mass market blend of conscious reggae was the soundtrack to my early teens.

Confused as I was by growing up half African in an inner city London comprehensive, my learning atmosphere was defined by white and Caribbean working class attitudes to education.

Does that sound snobbish? Racist even? It may well. It’s not meant to be.

Was I ever bullied, demeaned or sneered at for enjoying reading, or generally getting my homework done? For enjoying learning?

There wasn’t a great deal of encouragement among my peers to study hard, but no, I wasn’t.

Luckily I was generally part of the gang – which meant the fact that I also (sometimes) worked pretty hard went unnoticed by the people that really mattered. The other kids.

It was an environment where many pupils got more out of tormenting teachers than trying to get good grades. It was pretty amusing, I must confess, indeed