Tag: Seun Kuti

Singer Seun Kuti has shared his belief on monogamy with the affirmation that it doesn’t work.  

He stated this in an interview with media personalities, Tolanibaj and Moet Abebe on the ‘Bahd & Boujee’ podcast.

According to him, having multiple women demonstrates power and affluence. 

Stressing that a powerful man must have the support of numerous powerful women whom he described as “goddesses”.

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Seun said: “Monogamy doesn’t work. As a powerful man, you must have the support of numerous powerful goddesses. Women that are in your life because the ancestors put them there. You share with them”. 

He further added that his late father and Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, had over 100 concubines despite marrying 27 women in one day.

Singer Seun Kuti has contributed his two cents to the controversial DNA test topic on social media. 

Nigerians have been debating online over DNA tests, asking if it is necessary or not, given recent cases of paternity fraud.

Reacting via his Instagram account, Kuti asserted that demanding a DNA test is a ‘trust and power issue’.

He claimed that most of the men requesting for DNA tests wouldn’t ask for it if their partners were more financially buoyant than them.

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He said: “There is no way that doing a DNA test is not about trust. Doing a DNA test is a trust issue 100 per cent! It’s not only a trust issue, it’s also a power issue. No man would request for a DNA test if their partners are richer than them”.

Late Mohbad’s wife Wunmi has been asked to conduct a DNA test for the deceased son, Liam to further ascertain the paternity of the 11-month-old. 

Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti and his wife, Yetunde, have declared that they will not part ways if either of them is discovered to be unfaithful.

They emphasized that infidelity would not signify the end of their marriage.

The couple disclosed this during their appearance on the Valentine edition of the TVC program, Your View.

Yetunde said: “There is nothing my husband is going to do that would make me leave him. Even if he cheats on me I won’t leave him. I am not going to leave my husband because he cheats on me. Nah, that can’t happen.”

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Kuti inferred: “We don’t believe in cheating. What is cheating? Love is not ownership.”

One of the hosts asked Seun Kuti, “Would you leave her [your wife] if she cheats on you?

He replied: “No. What has that got to do with anything? Let me tell you something about Africa. African men knew this 500 years ago, 300 years ago, 200 years ago. But today we African men are forming as if we do not know what is going on. In Africa, only your sister’s children inherit from you. Because they are the only ones you are sure are your blood. The heir to the king is the sister’s child. Not his own children. Because he is not sure.

“I am not saying it is okay that my wife cheats on me. African men knew that your blood was matrilineal. Even though she is not your sister’s husband’s child, you are sure she is your sister’s child which is your blood.”

Yetunde Kuti, the wife of Grammy-nominated musician, Seun Kuti, has opened up about the initial obstacles she faced when considering marriage to the Kuti family.

Speaking on Your View on TVC, Yetunde shared the concerns and misunderstandings her family harboured.

In the interview, Yetunde revealed her family’s apprehensions about her union with Seun Kuti and how they cautioned her against it.

She said that despite their reservations, she went against their advice and tied the knot with the singer.

During the conversation, the dancer disclosed that her family held preconceived notions about her husband based on the polygamous history of Seun’s father, Fela Kuti.

According to her, her relatives warned her about potentially becoming one of many wives, comparing it to Fela Kuti’s marriages.

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Despite the warnings, Yetunde emphasised that she chose to challenge societal stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding marriage.

She said: I have always had the idea of not wanting to be married, and my family was expecting me not to get married, especially to Seun. I grew up with people whose marriages were not stable and looked at it from their perspective, and I realized that everybody has their own reasons their marriages didn’t work, and people can’t just continue like that.”

“There’s a sacrifice that one has to make, but some people don’t want to make the sacrifice. My family said my life would end if I married Seun Kuti and that I would just be one of his 35 wives. They said his father married many wives and that he would marry more than him.”

Seun Kuti, son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has revealed how the late music legend used to send his personal assistant to London to buy ice cream and his favorite sweet for him.

He stated this while on an Instagram live session with his fans.

In a bid to educate his fans, Seun said that being a pan-Africanist doesn’t necessarily mean one should be suffering.

Kuti said: “Anyone that tells you that to be a pan-Africanist is to suffer, is a liar. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, is Fela also a liar? Do you enjoy more than Fela?

“Fela used to send his PA to London to buy ice cream and his favorite sweet for him. The PA would leave Lagos 10am and arrive in London 3pm.

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“He had to go to Bond Street to buy Fela’s favorite sweet. The name of the PA was Femi Bankole Osula but we called him ‘Femi Photo’ because he was also Fela’s photographer.

“He would arrive in Lagos the next morning with the sweet and ice cream. Does that mean Fela is not a pan-Africanist because he likes to lick ice cream?

“You must not enjoy the sweet creams of this life, is that your idea of pan-Africanist? ‘I’m not African because I was born in Africa, I’m African because Africa was born in me.’ It means that for those little pressures that you want to get, you must never betray or sabotage your own people. I will never destroy Africa just because I want luxury.”