Maverick singer, Seun Kuti has claimed that his father, the late Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, didn’t restrict his wives from having affairs with other men.
He further claimed that this was one of Fela’s greatest mistake, alleging that some of the women eventually contacted HIV from their other partners and transferred it to the late singer.
Speaking during a recent Instagram livestream, Kuti said contrary to the speculations that Fela was the one who gave his women the disease, he was the victim.
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 make mistakes. But Fela is a man that is on the side of humanity.”
Newsunplug recalls that Fela made headlines when he married 27 women in a single traditional ceremony on February 20, 1978, in Lagos.