Widespread singer Seun Kuti has alleged that his father, the late Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, didn’t stop his wives from participating in relationships with different males.
He described this as certainly one of Fela’s greatest errors, claiming that a number of the girls later contracted HIV from different companions and unknowingly handed it on to the music icon.
Talking throughout a current Instagram livestream, Seun Kuti additionally dismissed longstanding claims that Fela was liable for infecting his companions, insisting as an alternative that the late singer was the one affected.
He mentioned …
“Fela made many errors. One of many errors he made -one day, I noticed a video of a girl on-line saying why are folks praising Fela’s legacy regardless of him giving girls HIV and dying of AIDS.
“I mentioned, ‘Oh, Fela you see your self?’ If Fela was a conventional man, he would nonetheless be alive. I’ll inform you one thing about him that you simply may not have identified, Fela’s girls all had different males.
“Fela didn’t hold his girls to himself. He believed that as he’s free to sleep with all the ladies, the ladies are additionally free to satisfy different males. His legislation was that they shouldn’t deliver the lads to his home.
“My father doesn’t go away his home to sleep with different girls outdoors, so it was his girls who introduced HIV dwelling to him. No person is ideal. All people make errors. However Fela is a person that’s on the aspect of humanity.”