My voice not loud enough — Kiekie

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.”

Kiekie also stated that people had often written about her being “too loud and always shouting”.

“Luckily, one presenter met me on a red carpet and said, ‘Some people are of the opinion that you are too loud, you shout a lot.’ I told her she needs to be loud enough so I can learn her name. You have to be as loud as you can be. I am the one with the voice, I am the one with the dream, I am the one with the vision. I know what I want to achieve. Across (social media) platforms now, I have over 10 million followers, and you can compare that to the population of Nigeria (over 200 million people)? Do you see that my voice is not loud enough?”

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