Born in Britain, she moved to Nigeria upon marrying her Nigerian husband and most of her works focus on Nigerian-themed concepts.
[1] She was an artist in residence for the 2015 Cheltenham Jazz Festival[2] and had a solo exhibition at the Quintessence Gallery, Ikoyi also in 2015.
[3] A number of her works are composed of paintings of objects such as Cycle rickshaws called marwa in Nigeria, molue bus and Volkswagen Beetles.
[4] In 2019, Alakija was featured in the Visual Collaborative electronic catalog, under the Polaris series, she was interviewed alongside other artists from around the world.
Alakija has written a few children's books including Catch that Goat, Counting Chickens, and A Stork in a Baobab Tree.