Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late father of Nigerian artist Seun Kuti, allegedly did not restrict his wives from having extramarital affairs.
Additionally, he claimed that this was one of Fela’s worst errors and that some of the women finally got HIV from their other lovers, which they then gave to the late singer.
In a recent Instagram livestream, Kuti stated that he was the sufferer of the sickness, refuting rumors that Fela was the one who infected his women.
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.”
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