Jonima was born in Sierra Leone, the son of the Sierra Leonean ambassador to Guinea during the civil war. His family received asylum in the U.S. when he was fourteen years old. Jonima grew up in Dallas, Texas; where he Pre-Med at the University of Texas, and worked at the Arlington Memorial Hospital (Emergency Room) as a Physician Technician, prior to studying at the 2-year Meisner Conservatory William Esper Studio in New York under the tutelage of the globe theatre’s Barbara Marchant.
