[1][2][3] Born on 13 May 1935, in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, Nigeria, Uwechue attended St. John's College in Kaduna from 1949 to 1954.
[2] He was a doctoral student in political science at the École pratique des hautes études from 1970 to 1973.
[4] Uwechue entered Nigeria's foreign service at its inception in 1960 and served in Cameroon, Pakistan and Mali.
[5] In 1999, Uwechue became the Special Presidential Envoy on Conflict Resolution in Africa to former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
[7] From 2000 to 2007, he became the Economic Community of West African States' Special Representative in Cote d’Ivoire during the political crisis in that country.