Seun Kuti, the son of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has sparked a new controversy.
The leader of the Egypt 80 Band revealed during an Instagram livestream that his father’s women all had other men.
According to him, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti did not prevent his numerous wives from having intimate relationships with other men, as many traditional men in polygamous marriages are known to.
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Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
Fela and his 27 wives
He also said that Fela would still be alive if he was a traditional man who demanded monogamy from his wives.
The younger Kuti made the statement while addressing a claim made by a woman who said that the Afrobeat legend does not deserve the praise he gets because he infected his women with HIV and eventually died of AIDS.
Seun Kuti
He insinuated that his father was not the one who spread the disease to his wives; rather, one of the wives contracted it and brought it to his father.
He added that his father’s biggest mistake was not being a traditional man who insisted all his wives remain faithful to him.
He said, “Fela made many mistakes. One of the mistakes he made—one day, I saw a video of a lady online saying, ‘Why are people praising Fela’s legacy despite him giving women HIV and dying of AIDS?’
“I said, ‘Oh, Fela, you see yourself?’ If Fela was a traditional man, he would still be alive. I will tell you something about him that you might not have known: Fela’s women all had other men.
“Fela did not keep his women to himself. He believed that as he is free to sleep with all the women, the women are also free to meet other men. His law was that they shouldn’t bring the men to his house.
“My father doesn’t leave his house to sleep with other women outside, so it was his women who brought HIV home to him. Nobody is perfect. Everybody makes mistakes. But Fela is a man that is on the side of humanity,” Seun Kuti concluded.
Among other things, Fela Kuti is famous for marrying 27 of his female band members, known as his “queens,” in a single mass ceremony on February 20, 1978, at the Parisona Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria.
He married them to protect them following the 1977 military attack on his Kalakuta Republic compound. The women were married in one day, in a traditional ceremony presided over by 12 priests. Fela, utilized a rotation system of 12 wives at a time. However, he divorced all 27 of his wives in 1986, shortly after his release from prison, stating that marriage brings jealousy and selfishness.
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