Chika's parents, Dr. Emmanual Oranika and Dr. Patience Otuonye Oranika, are Nigerian immigrants who moved to the US to pursue higher education. However, for Chika, her hometown of Montgomery was only ever a place she wanted to escape from.
"With my career, you know, it has been a real driving force for me to get out of Montgomery," she explained during a September 2019 interview with Vice. "Anyone who's made it out of Montgomery is like a rose that grew out of the concrete, because there's no way we were supposed to get away from there."
