{"id":4071,"date":"2023-01-11T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T08:35:22","slug":"why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why I desire to become an African Elder&#8221; Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Nigerian musician and singer, Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti better known as Seun Kuti or Big Bird Kuti, is 40 today, January 11th, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of his birthday, the son of late singer, Fela Kuti has revealed his goal for his new age. According to Seun, his goals is to become an African Elder, that is, one that has aged with grace and dignity that the young ones can emulate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy birthday to meeeeeeeeeee!!! The goal is to become an African Elder ie one that has aged with grace and dignity that the young ones can emulate. I am happy to make it to 40!! The journey continues. Please use me hastag of the day o\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-seun-kuti-s-40th-pre-birthday-shoot-sparks-mixed-reactions\">Seun Kuti\u2019s 40th pre-birthday shoot sparks mixed reactions<\/h2>\n<p>Kemi Filani reported weeks back that Seun Kuti had sparked mixed reactions with his pre-birthday shoot.<\/p>\n<p>The son of late Fela Kuti, while gearing up for his 40th birthday, had gotten many talking with his birthday shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of his big day, Seun Kuti had released his birthday photo, where he channeled his inner woman.<\/p>\n<p>He captioned the photo with, \u201cBirthday shoot loading\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to his Instagram, fans queried if the singer was following the footstep of James Brown and Bobrisky.<\/p>\n<h2>Seun Kuti celebrates 38th birthday with rare erotic photo<\/h2>\n<p>For his 38th birthday in 2021, the youngest son created a stir online as he shared an erotic birthday photo.<\/p>\n<p>Seun Kuti via his social media handle celebrated his girlfriend and baby mama who he nicknamed \u2018special gift\u2019. Sharing a photo of himself carrying her while securing her backside, Seun thanked her for helping him become better and grabbing his thoughts and lifting his spirit.<\/p>\n<p>In his own words, he wrote;<\/p>\n<p>\u201dHappy bday to me! Born on this day 1983. Life is all about the people we meet along the way that help us become better. Today is my birthday but I\u2019m gonna write a little message to my own special gift @chefyeide. Today might be my birthday but I will celebrate you, the glue that makes the broken China anew. She dey the trenches with the troops to empower the group. The main pepper inside this soup! She grab my thoughts and lift my spirits and a little girl to remind me that the work can never finish. Thanks for being \u2018 a Gift \u2018 #getthesax. #833\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Seun Kuti is 40\" class=\"wp-image-2740500\" data-=\"\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Seun Kuti is 40\" class=\"wp-image-2740500\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>));\/**\/<\/script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian musician and singer, Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti better known as Seun Kuti or Big Bird Kuti, is 40 today, January 11th, 2023. In celebration of his birthday, the son of late singer, Fela Kuti has revealed his goal for his new age. According to Seun, his goals is to become an African Elder, that is, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nollywood"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Why I desire to become an African Elder&quot; Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Why I desire to become an African Elder&quot; Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigerian musician and singer, Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti better known as Seun Kuti or Big Bird Kuti, is 40 today, January 11th, 2023. In celebration of his birthday, the son of late singer, Fela Kuti has revealed his goal for his new age. According to Seun, his goals is to become an African Elder, that is, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-11T08:35:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1226\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/\",\"name\":\"\\\"Why I desire to become an African Elder\\\" Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40 - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-11T08:35:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-11T08:35:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":1226},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"&#8220;Why I desire to become an African Elder&#8221; Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"Why I desire to become an African Elder\" Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40 - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"Why I desire to become an African Elder\" Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40 - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"Nigerian musician and singer, Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti better known as Seun Kuti or Big Bird Kuti, is 40 today, January 11th, 2023. In celebration of his birthday, the son of late singer, Fela Kuti has revealed his goal for his new age. According to Seun, his goals is to become an African Elder, that is, [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2023-01-11T08:35:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":1226,"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/","name":"\"Why I desire to become an African Elder\" Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40 - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg","datePublished":"2023-01-11T08:35:22+00:00","dateModified":"2023-01-11T08:35:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Seun-Kuti-turns-40-Kemi-Filani-blog.jpg","width":720,"height":1226},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/01\/11\/why-i-desire-to-become-an-african-elder-seun-kuti-spills-as-he-turns-40\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8220;Why I desire to become an African Elder&#8221; Seun Kuti spills as he turns 40"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/6f91dab2e50bbbfe895c93e7e84e7f74","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}