Maverick singer Seun Kuti has claimed that his father, the late Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, did not prohibit his wives from having relationships with other men.
Seun Kuti further stated that this was one of Fela’s biggest mistakes, alleging that some of the women later contracted HIV from their other partners and inadvertently transmitted it to the late singer.
Speaking during a recent Instagram livestream, Seun Kuti clarified that, contrary to speculation suggesting Fela infected his partners, it was actually Fela who became a victim of the disease.
Seun Kuti 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.”
Recalls that Fela made headlines when he married 27 women in a single traditional ceremony on February 20, 1978, in Lagos.
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