{"id":71388,"date":"2023-05-28T14:11:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/28\/fela-was-an-icon-but-not-a-good-father-yeni-kuti\/"},"modified":"2023-05-28T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T14:11:54","slug":"fela-was-an-icon-but-not-a-good-father-yeni-kuti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/28\/fela-was-an-icon-but-not-a-good-father-yeni-kuti\/","title":{"rendered":"Fela was an icon but not a good father \u2013 Yeni Kuti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Yeni Kuti, daughter of afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has said the late singer was not a good father.<\/p>\n<p>She, however, said the late musician was an icon and a role model.<\/p>\n<p>She stated this in a recent chat with media personality, Chude Jideonwo.<\/p>\n<p>Yeni said she never confronted her dad about not being a good father, but the late singer and his first son, Femi were always at loggerheads.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cHe [Fela] was not quite a good father. No [I never told him that he isn\u2019t a good father]. Maybe Femi, not me. Femi and Fela used to have battles. And Femi will give it to him straight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-342-1024x759.png\" alt=\"Fela was an icon but not a good father \u2013 Yeni Kuti\" class=\"wp-image-10032315699 lazy\"  data- title=\"Fela was an icon but not a good father \u2013 Yeni Kuti\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fela was an icon but not a good father \u2013 Yeni Kuti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShola and I, we were like timid. You know, they said, \u2018When two elephants are fighting, the grass will keep quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can remember one day, Fela just came and said, \u2018three of you are useless children\u2019. Femi just said, \u2018for what?\u2019 Femi just started facing him and then they started facing each other. Shola and I will say, \u2018it\u2019s okay\u2019. Fela will say, \u2018No\u2019. And Femi just said, \u2018let him go\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I have ever had that kind of confrontation with my father. Maybe because I was a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeni Kuti, daughter of afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has said the late singer was not a good father. She, however, said the late musician was an icon and a role model. She stated this in a recent chat with media personality, Chude Jideonwo. Yeni said she never confronted her dad about not being a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fela was an icon but not a good father \u2013 Yeni Kuti - 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\/05\/28\/fela-was-an-icon-but-not-a-good-father-yeni-kuti\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fela was an icon but not a good father \u2013 Yeni Kuti - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yeni Kuti, daughter of afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has said the late singer was not a good father. 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