‘I wanted to be World Bank President’- Burna Boy’s sister

Burna Boy’s sister and business executive, Ronami Ogulu, has opened up about her unexpected transition from finance to the music industry, revealing that her dream was once to become the President of the World Bank.

Speaking in a recent interview on the Martell Afrobeats Conversation Series, Ronami shared that her background was deeply rooted in finance, not entertainment. “I was trained as a finance person. I was trained as an investment banker. My dream was to be the President of the World Bank and I was gunning for it,” she said.

She credited her upbringing for shaping her discipline and drive. “A bit of it is how I was brought up… For my mum, she’s trained as a linguist; she speaks six languages and has managed Burna Boy by herself for all these years, and they achieved so much,” Ronami noted.

The younger Ogulu recounted how her journey into music began unexpectedly while she was serving in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and working in corporate banking. “I remember saying I was going to take three months off to help my mum. So, she started sending me emails one a day, then two, then three. And one day she said, ‘We’re going on tour.’ I was like, ‘With who?’ It was a rude awakening,” she said, laughing.

That tour would eventually change the course of her life. “After the tour, I never went back to corporate banking,” she confessed. “That was how I became the Chief Operating Officer.”