[3] Growing up, Ikoko was inspired by authors Malorie Blackman, Sister Souljah, and Eric Jerome Dickey.
[7] Ikoko has worked on social inclusion and community engagement projects within prisons, including facilitating creative and performing arts workshops with incarcerated persons.
[9] The play addresses issues of kidnapping, forced religion, sexism, and arranged marriage as well as themes of friendship and resilience.
Ikoko cites as inspirations playwrights debbie tucker green and Dennis Kelly, author Chinua Achebe, and recording artist and activist Sister Souljah.
"[1]With Claire Wilson, Ikoko co-wrote the screenplay for Sarah Gavron's 2019 film Rocks, a coming-of-age drama film starring Bukky Bakray as a Black British teenage girl living in Hackney, London, whose single mother abandons her and her younger brother Emmanuel, forcing them to try to avoid being taken into social services.
Nineteen-year-old Bukky Bakray also received BAFTA Rising Star Award, becoming the youngest winner in the category.
[4] In 2021, it was announced that Ikoko would scripting a six-part television adaptation of DJ Target's 2018 book Grime Kids, which focused on the rise of a fictional group of young teenagers growing up in the early 2000s, dreaming of being able to make their voice heard through music.