Journalists Seeking To Depict Me In Bad Light Like They Did To My Father-Seun Kuti

Youngest son of  the late Afro-beat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Mr Seun Kuti  has alleged that  journalists in the country have deliberately misrepresented him just like they did to his father .

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that  Seun  said this during a chat with Chude Jideonwo, on his podcast programme, #WithChude.

Seun noted that contrary to reports that he started smoking at a tender age, he did not however  do this until he was 21 years old.

He noted that the media also showed his father in a bad light during his lifetime, which made the general public come to the wrong conclusions that Fela wore underpants all the time while performing on stage.

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, also called Abàmì Ẹ̀dá, was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist, he died on August 2, 1997.

‘I think it’s deliberate on the part of the media to show me in a bad light. It’s the same way they projected my dad, and people thought he wore pants all the time to perform. They kept showing him at one rehearsal at home, where he wore pants. But that was part of a documentary. People thought that was the truth, and they felt Fela was crazy.

For example, I didn’t start smoking until I was 21 years old. I was in Liverpool, and that was when I knew that peer pressure is the biggest influence in the life of a growing human being’ he said.

While revealing how he finally started smoking at the age of 21, during his 20 years of living at the Kalakuta Republic, Seun  advised parents to pay attention to their children and their friends, noting that it would be the best gift a parent can give to their children.

‘Watch your child’s friends and that is the best gift you can give them. For the 20 years that I lived in Kalakuta Republic, everyone was smoking around me, and I never smoked. After just one year of living with my flatmate, Alex, who was smoking all the time and was my agemate, he initiated me’ he said.

‘At that time, they had started writing articles about how I was taking all kinds of drugs. I think it’s a way they project people in certain ways that society disregards. It’s a kind of alienation tactic’ Seun added.

He also talked about his experience in detention, after assaulting a policeman.

‘Well, my case is in court, so I will not really delve deep into that issue, but I will say this, I don’t believe that protecting my family is a crime. An 8-second video doesn’t explain an incident that happened for about 15 minutes’ he submitted while also describing as untrue rumours that he had become a pastor in detention.

 

 ‘What I learned is that anybody could be in that cell. From what I saw in that place, I knew anybody could be in that cell.

I didn’t become a GO in the cell. I don’t pray. I meditate a lot with my ancestors and share my plans and ambitions. It’s just the continual onslaught of the Nigerian media against me that painted it as though I was praying’  he said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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