Yetunde Kuti, the wife of Nigerian musician Seun Kuti, candidly shares her family's initial disapproval of her marriage to Seun Kuti. During an interactive segment on the show Yourviewtvc, she revealed that her relatives expressed concerns, predicting that if she married Seun Kuti, her life would take a negative turn, and she would become one of his 35 wives.
She explained that this perception stemmed from her family's awareness of Fela Kuti, Seun's father, who had multiple wives. Despite the opposition, Yetunde Kuti emphasized her willingness to challenge societal norms and make her own decisions about marriage.
Seun and Yetunde Kuti, Husband and wife. source: GoogleReflecting on her decision, Yetunde shared, “I have always had the idea of not wanting to be married, and my family was expecting me not to get married, especially to Seun. I grew up with people whose marriages were not stable and looked at it from their perspective, and I realized that everybody has their own reasons why their marriages didn’t work, and people can’t just continue like that.”
“There’s a sacrifice that one has to make, but some people don’t want to make the sacrifice. My family said my life would end if I married Seun Kuti and that I would just be one of his 35 wives. They said his father married many wives and that he would marry more than him.”
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