A popular content creator and actress, Bukunmi Adeaga-Ilori, aka Kiekie, has shared her thoughts on how being bold and unapologetic has shaped her journey.
Appearing on the What I Said podcast, she reflected on being labelled as “too loud”, noting the influence of her mother, a successful businesswoman in the male-dominated oil industry, and how she learnt to embrace her voice.
She shared, “I am privileged to come from a supportive family. My mum is a very big businesswoman in the oil space, which like many other industries, is male-dominated. At some point, she was the secretary of the entire association—Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria. People said things like, ‘Why would you put a woman in that position?’ and others. I look at her and say, if this being is bursting doors like this, I am not even loud enough. I have not even achieved half of what she has achieved industry-wise.”
