Veteran Nollywood actress and grandma of the film industry in Nigeria,Bukky Ajayi dies at 82, NiyiTabiti.net gathered. Wole Arisekola of Street Journal, who posted on his Facebook page that details of Bukky’s death is still sketchy.One of her grand daughters is married to Jazzman Olofin,a Nigerian born afro hip hop artist.
According to the biography of Bukky Ajayi, she started acting with the ‘Village Headmaster’ in the 70’s,and she later got a role in Amaka Igwe’s ‘Checkmate’.She has featured in so many home videos that she has lost count.Shooting of international film Critical Assignment in South Africa, is one of the events of her life that she will never forget.”It gave me an opportunity to see how it is done elsewhere, other than Nigeria,where a movie is shot in five days.
Bukky said of her experience in one of her interviews, “I went round the country. I saw how a star is treated.For once in my life, I was a star, I was treated as a star, and I believe I am a star.I had my own caravan with my name on it, my own car with a driver who doubles as my security man. And on days when I am not working the car is there to take me wherever I want to go. I had a lovely time, I enjoyed it and I said to my almighty Allah that Hollywood is the next step.”