Kemi Adetiba Biography, Career, Controversies, And Net Worth

Kemi Adetiba is a Nigerian filmmaker, television, and music video director, whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Sound City TV, BET, and Netflix. Kemi was born in Lagos State on the 8th of January 1980 to a rich family from Ekiti State to Dele and Mayen Adetiba.

Kemi Adetiba got engaged to the love of her life, Ghanaian music executive Oscar Heman-Ackah on the 28th of January, 2022 while she was on vacation in Ghana. On April 23rd, 2022, Kemi Adetiba finally got married to Oscar Heman-Ackah whom she has been engaged to earlier, in a wedding ceremony.

Kemi Adetiba Profile

Educational Background

Kemi Adetiba attended Atlantic Hall High School, and the University of Lagos to study law and was called to Bar at Nigeria Law School. However, Kemi had a different career path in mind as she decided on media.

Career

Kemi Adetiba is a Nigerian filmmaker, television, and music video director, whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Sound City TV, BET, and Netflix. Kemi Adetiba started professionally as a radio presenter with Rhythm 93.7 FM, where she became the voice behind two nationally syndicated hit shows: Soul’d Out and Sunday at the Seaside.

Young Kemi Adetiba started her media journey as a child when she was featured in two national television commercials for the detergent brand OMO, trudging her father’s broadcasting path of her father, Dele Adetiba. She started anonymously posting personal remixes online on various applications such as Spotify and Soundcloud under the username and tag ‘hole’.

Kemi Adetiba began to make a transition from being a voice on the radio, to be a face on television by producing and presenting several shows on Mnet, which includes Studio 53, and Temptation Nigeria, which she presented alongside Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa. Kemi was also a presenter on  Soundcity TV and hosted Maltina Dance All for three consecutive seasons.

After years of success being in front of the camera, she enrolled at the New York Film Academy to learn the ropes about being behind the cameras. And today, her body of work as a director is spread across the African continent and beyond its borders. Kemi Adetiba’s short film Across a Bloodied Ocean was screened at the 2009 Pan African Film Festival and National Black Arts Festival.

On 8 September 2016, Kemi Adetiba’s first feature film The Wedding Party premiered its opening night, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as the opening film of the City-to-City Spotlight. In 2017 she was presenting the show King Women where she interviewed her mother Mayen Adetiba. Other former King Women included Chigul, Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, TY Bello, and Tara.

The Nigerian filmmaker, television director, and music video director, Kemi Adetiba has become a force to be reckoned with in the Nollywood industry. Popular for her blockbuster political thriller “King of Boys” Kemi Adetiba has a knack for creating masterpieces from her input on the 2016 movie “Wedding Party”, which entered the highest-grossing movie list that year.

The record was only broken by Funke Akindele’s “Omo Ghetto: The saga”.Regardless Kemi Adetiba possesses an eagle eye for creative productions, this is what has influenced the quality of her work with Nigerian celebrity artists like Olamide of YBNL on visuals for ” Anifowose,” Wizkid’s “Tease Me/Bad Guys”.

Kemi Adetiba’s works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Soundcity TV, BET, and Netflix. King of Boys was listed as one of the top 10 movies of 2018 and grossed a total of N245 million naira. The award-winning director crowned her masterpiece film with a seven-part series on Netflix as its sequel ‘The return of the King’.

Controversies

Kemi Adetiba took to her Instagram page to narrate her near-death experience six months before shooting the Return of the King movie film. She stated that she had to move to the set straight from the hospital.

Further explaining that a lot of tears and sacrifice had gone into the production of the movie. Also in 2015, the video director Kemi Adetiba shared the story of her fibroid surgery.

Initially, she had kept it secret but opened up about the surgery after a fan of hers reached out to her to ask about her battle with fibroid. She said “I battled with an extreme case of Fibroids in secret for many years. 

When I say extreme, I mean EXTREME. From being rushed to the ER where the intense PAIN wouldn’t even allow me to cry, to being dangerously close to death……….”Kemi Adetiba revealed that she was only speaking out about it to encourage other women battling the same issues with fibroid.

Kemi Adetiba Instagram Handle

Kemi Adetiba is on Instagram @kemiadetiba.

Personal Life

Kemi Adetiba was born on January 8, 1980, to her Ekiti father  Dele Adetiba, and Efik’s mother, Mayen Adetiba. Her father, Dele Adetiba, was Nigeria’s iconic sports broadcaster, a veteran in the advertising and broadcast industry. Her mother Mayeni Adetiba is an engineer and actor who happens to be the first female civil engineer to be elected into the Executive Committee of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.

Kemi Adetiba comes from a rich background of successful parents in their respective fields. She has two brothers, Remi, and Bamidele Adetiba. Remi Adetiba is a New York-based creative director, photographer, and One Club Member. In 2018, Remi teamed up with his sister Kemi to produce ‘King of Boys. Both siblings were featured on the Guardian lifestyle cover 2018 edition King Siblings: Kemi and Remi Adetiba.

Meanwhile, Bamidele Adetiba Jnr is a fitness professional, sports fan, athlete, and business entrepreneur.Kemi Adetiba got engaged to the love of her life, Ghanaian music executive Oscar Heman-Ackah on the 28th of January, 2022 while she was on vacation in Ghana family.

At 42 years old, Kemi Adetiba got married on April 23rd, 2022, Kemi Adetiba to Oscar Heman-Ackah whom she has been engaged to earlier, she officially tied the knot in a star-studded wedding ceremony. Which had in attendance Sola Sobowale, Hilda Dokunbo, Ini Edo, Mercy Eke, Adesua Etomi, Banky Wellington, and others.

Kemi Adetiba’s husband, Oscar Heman- Ackah is a Ghanaian Nigerian music executive and creative entrepreneur. He is the chief executive officer of Soltracka productions, creative marketing, advertising, media agency, music label, and production company.

Kemi Adetiba Net Worth

Kemi Adetiba is estimated to be worth over $6 million.