She graduated from North Central College, with a BA degree in International Business in 2003.
In 2006, Jele self-published a guide, So You Wanna Be an Au Pair in the USA – What Your Agency Will Never Tell.
[5] According to her, she became a writer accidentally, after attending a session held by an American author, who made the audience work in a short writing exercise.
The author read a passage from a book and asked the audience to complete the first two paragraphs.
In 2011, she won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best First Book in the African region for her novel Happiness is a Four-letter Word.