The son of Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti, has disclosed the effects of his father’s presence on the white women that came to their house.
Fela would frequently entertain white women with Nigerian friends, Seun revealed during an Instagram live session.
According to Seun, Fela didn’t alter who he was in order to win over the white women.
As a result of his presence, they changed, taking on traditional shrine attire and African haircuts.
Seun attributed this to Fela’s strong sense of identity and love for Africa.
“My father had white women in his house. When I grew up, there were like two white women at least living with us. He always had white ones with the black ones.
“Instead of Fela to wear a suit and tie so that the white women would see him as fine, the women were the ones who started wearing shrine regalia and African hairstyles.
“Fela never changed because of them but they changed because of him because Fela already knew who he was and his love for Africa,” Seun Kuti shared.
Recall that, Seun Kuti shared his father, Fela Kuti,’s views on child discipline.
The 41-year-old artist denounced the use of whipping as a form of discipline in schools on his Instagram page.
Seun remembered that in school, Fela made sure he wasn’t flogged. He claimed that instead, his father gave the school administration instructions to notify him directly of any misbehaviour.
He also talked about the repercussions a teacher experienced after being beaten by his father.
“As a product of the Nigerian educational system, I was beaten in school then,” he said.
“That is what I love my father for. When I was about to enter school, on every first day, my father gave me a letter directed to the headmistress for primary and the principal for secondary.
“He told the teachers or school authorities to report me to him and not touch or flog me in school if I did anything wrong. Fela would say: ‘I’d punish and deal with him myself instead’.
“One day, one of the teachers flogged me, and I didn’t like the teacher in question. The speed at which I reported the case to my father was so fast. What that teacher went through at the hands of my father… hmm.
“That’s why I don’t understand the actions of some parents today. I always say that to beat your child is unAfrican. I know many of us are used to what we watch, and we are trained to think that it’s normal to beat your child.
“It’s a lie. It stems from Africans being beaten in colonisation. Under whose authority is what we should be investigating today.”
