Popular singer Seun Kuti has alleged that his father, the late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, did not prevent his wives from engaging in relationships with other men.
He described this as one of Fela’s biggest mistakes, claiming that some of the women later contracted HIV from other partners and unknowingly passed it on to the music icon.
Speaking during a recent Instagram livestream, Seun Kuti also dismissed longstanding claims that Fela was responsible for infecting his partners, insisting instead that the late singer was the one affected.
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.”
