Wale Oyejide

Musical career

Oyéjidé has released four musical albums, including one day everything changed (2004),^[6] Broken Jazz 101 (2004), and Africahot! The Afrofuture Sessions (2006).^[7][8]

Law career

Oyéjidé left music for law school.^[9] He practiced law for some years before delving into fashion.^[10][11]

Fashion career

Oyéjidé started his fashion company, Ikiré Jones, in 2014 after quitting his job as a lawyer.^[12] Ikiré Jones, as described by Oyéjidé during his interview with Okayafrica, is a combination of Neapolitan tailoring and African aesthetics.^[13] Ikiré Jones designed some outfits for the Marvel movie Black Panther.^[14][15]

Writing career

He contributed an essay to The Good Immigrant USA (2019), a "collection of essays exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America".^[16][17]

Film career

Oyéjidé co-directed the short documentary film After Migration: Calabria (2019) with Jake Saner. The short follows both a boy who left his home in The Gambia and a Nigerian single mother who birthed her child in a refugee camp, whom are settling in Calabria, Italy.^[18][19] The short aims to subvert common narratives surrounding subjects of irregular migration.^[20] In 2023, a second short film directed by Oyéjidé titled Do You See Me was released.^[21]

In 2023, the drama film Bravo, Burkina! was released, which Oyéjidé directed, wrote, edited and produced.^[22] The film follows a homesick Burkinabé boy named Aimé who migrated to Italy. The film had its African premiere at the 2023 FESPACO film festival, for which it served as the opening film.^[23]