Crucial Question Ibukun Awosika Asked Her Son, Which I Also Asked My Daughter – Waje

Nigerian singer Waje has found a lot of success in the music industry, and has worked hard to create a life for herself, and her daughter who is now all grown up. Many don't know, but Waje is a mother of one daughter who she raised as a single mother. And because of this truth, Waje is opening up in a new interview with Channels Television about how it fueled her hustle, and made it paramount to impart wisdom on her daughter. In one of the interview's highlights, Waje reveals a question that popular Nigerian businesswoman Ibukun Awosika asked her son when he turned 21, a question she also asked her own daughter. Here is what Waje had to say.

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Speaking about raising her daughter to be financially literate and revealing the question Ibukun Awosika asked her son, which she also asked her daughter, Waje said:

WAJE: I think that generational wealth for us women is also educating women on how to create that wealth. Let me tell you why I say this: when my daughter was younger, I subscribed her to a financial platform that would teach her certain things. And to be honest, she didn't understand it at the time. But in my mind, I was like this is what I know. Maybe if I had had a mentor that could teach me other ways, I would have been able to probably do something else that would have maybe been grander.

Until I now listened to Ibukun Awosika who said something about her son when he turned 21, and she asked him "a rolex or a financial adviser, what would you choose?" and he thought about it and said "a rolex". So when my daughter turned 21, I asked her the same question. But in my mind, I already knew where I was pushing her towards.

Because to create that wealth, generational wealth, you have to make sure that the person that's coming up in the next generation learns from your mistakes. I'm always screaming in the house "save oh!" because she likes fashion, she likes to buy clothes. But as she's buying clothes, I will tell her 'save oh' because me I don't give allowance anymore because we live in the same house so at least I'm helping her with rent and food [laughs]

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