Mohamed Tarqui Jalloh

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

Mohamed Tarqui Jalloh is a Sierra Leonean Poet and Spoken Word artist. Intrigued by the genius of words from a tender age, he Co-founded The Village Poetry Collective SL in 2016 for young Sierra Leoneans who are creative in all forms of art. The Village Collective have since hosted spoken word events in 2016 and 2018. He is also a member of The Sierra Leone Writers Forum and Tok U Tok, another group of mainly Sierra Leone Creatives. He serves as Grand Master of Ceremony and Secretary for International African Writers Association, a pan African writers group changing the African narrative, and Vice President of the Sierra Leonean Chapter. He is currently working on a spoken word album.