Fela’s ex Wife Reveals Shocking Details
About him, Says I Want The World To
Know The Truth
One of the wives of the late Afrobeat
legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Laide
Anikulapo-Kuti, Nee Babayale, has
revealed some shocking details about the
late legend.
How did you meet Fela?
I met Fela at a Sunday Jump in 1974. The
shrine was opposite my house and some
of my friends were selling things in front of
the place, and we were just there doing
our own thing, while Baba was inside
doing his own thing as usual. It was the
boys that made us know him well. They
came to buy cigarettes from my
friends, and wanted to take candy sweets
for free, and I was a kind of person that
would never allow anybody take me or the
people around me for a ride. I protested,
and the next thing I knew, was that a hot
slap landed on the cheek of my friend
selling the goods, and that’s how we
started fighting, that Fela had to come out.
We narrated what happened to him, so
Fela took the boy that slapped my friend
inside and punished him. After that, Fela
sent one of his drivers to me that if I’m
chanced, I should come and see him.
Initially, I didn’t want to go in, because my
people must not see me in that kind of
environment. I was 16 years old as at then
but I had a big stature. When I got in, Fela
said I should follow any of the cars to his
house, but I didn’t go. That was how I knew
Fela liked me, and I liked him too, so every
Sunday jump, I was always going there,
well-dressed. Whenever he was going in,
he always looked in our direction.
However, to cut the long story short, we
eventually began dating.
What was your parent’s reaction when they
knew you were in Kalakuta?
It was a tug-of war. My father never wanted
it, because he thought people who were
around Fela were hooligans, but it was a
lie. Anybody who was a hooligan then was
either a passer-by, or just a shrine-goer,
and not part of Fela’s inner caucus,
because Fela never wanted trouble from
any of his people. Fela fought with his
music, but when people heard the lyrics of
his songs, they thought he was a hooligan,
which he was not. I was actually on break
from school for two weeks when I decided
to go and spend some time with Fela, but
when I got there, I really enjoyed myself
and didn’t want to go back to school again
though I was in Form Four then. My
parents went looking for me in school, but
the Reverend mothers and sisters there
then said they didn’t know my
whereabouts even though all my
properties were still in the hostel. They
began searching everywhere, but they
never thought I could be in Fela’s place. It
was actually Fela’s friend, who happened
to be my in-law, Uncle Tayo Mott, that
informed my parents that I was with Fela.
He was a very close friend to Fela and was
also his DJ.
What were the actions your father took?
He was always coming to harass us
wherever we went. He would send boys
from Shitta, Surulere, to bundle me up
wherever I was, and they would carry me.
My father was a prominent, well-known
and outgoing person, so he knew people
like King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, and
IK Dairo very well, so he begged the three
of them to go and plead with Fela to
release his daughter. On that fateful day
when they came, I was in Fela’s room, and
we had just finished doing our ‘thing.’
When Fela was informed that the three
men were there to see him, he went out,
and later sent for me that I should dress up
and come out. When I went out, he sat me
down, and asked me if I knew the three
men, and I replied in the affirmative. He
asked me if I knew why they were there,
and I replied that I didn’t, so he told me
they were there because of me. I said why,
and asked them if they knew me, but Fela
calmed me down, that they were sent by
my father to beg me to come back home. I
then told them that there was nothing
happening there that they didn’t know
about because they were also in the music
industry. I told them I was enjoying Fela’s
music and didn’t want to go home.
Can you recollect what happened when
Kalakuta Republic was invaded?
It started like a joke, but quickly escalated
into war. Some traffic police officers
‘Yellow Fever’ came and said they wanted
to see the person who drove a Range
Rover that was in the compound because
it had even numbers on its license plate,
even though it was odd numbers. The
gateman then told them that he was not in
the best position to answer them, because
as someone that wasn’t learned, he didn’t
know the difference between odd and even
numbers. The gateman then went inside to
inform Fela, and he told them that he
wasn’t coming out. The Yellow Fever
officers then went and came back with
some soldiers because we were very near
Abati Barracks then. When Fela was
informed that there were soldiers outside,
he first went into his mother’s room,
because he never went out without seeing
her. Beko was already in the clinic then,
but when he saw what was going on, he
also came into mama’s room. Before we
knew what was happening, the whole
thing degenerated into chaos.
How did the issue of the mass marriage
come about?
When Kalakuta Republic was invaded and
we all had different injuries, mine was on
my navel, and all the other women making
jest of me that I would never have a baby,
even though I was just about 20 years old
then. I really wanted to have children
because of the special treatment Fela gave
his children. I then decided to look outside
because Fela didn’t want to have any more
children then. He went to one Baba JK in
Idi Oro in Mushin to make his sperm
watery. He was always drinking African
medicine there, and that was what
neutralized his sperm. So many women
were always getting pregnant for him that
he was terminating about six different
pregnancies per day. It was Dr. Beko
Ransome-Kuti that used to terminate it
then. They’re all dead now; me too, I’m
going to die one day, but it’s always good
to put things right for the records. There
was another girl then who I was close with,
Adunni, so I told her that we should look for
people who we would have children for.
She had a baby for a taxi driver, while I
had my baby for a journalist, Steve, with
Punch Newspapers. He usually reported
whatever activity Fela was involved in all
round the world. He was the kind of person
I needed at that time. There was a time we
were in Ghana in Hotel Presidential, and
that was the time I went in with him. Shortly
after that, I started experiencing morning
sickness, and when it was confirmed that I
was pregnant, I was very happy.
Soon after that, Fela called me to go in
with him, and I told him that I was pregnant.
He said, ‘What’ and I repeated it. He came
from the third floor to the first floor to
Mama’s room, and he told her, “Maami,
you know what, Laide is pregnant.’ Mama
asked him who was responsible, and he
told her he was the one to cover me up.
Mama then said ‘Fine’ because she knew
Fela liked me and I liked Fela. Mama
never knew that I had intercourse with
Steve, even though his room was directly
opposite mama’s own in Ghana. This is a
true life story. I want you to bring it out and
let people know.
After that time, Fela now called Steve and
the press that ‘these women have suffered
a lot with me, so if anyone of them wants,
they can marry me and be having children.’
Steve said if that was what he wanted,
then, no problem. So Fela put out a
notebook and said that the people who
want to marry him out of all the women in
the shrine should put their names down. In
all, we were 27 that wrote our names, and
Fela told the rest that if they didn’t write
their names, he wouldn’t sleep with them.
On the day of the wedding ceremony,
Fela’s best pal, Tunji Braithwaite, who was
supposed to join us together, ran away
from his chambers, saying that he had
never seen such a thing before for a man
to marry 27 women at the same time. He
had thought it was a joke when Fela told
him earlier. The following day, Fela called
an Ifa priest and they came to join us
together at Hotel Parisona in Anthony,
Lagos. Fela put money on everybody’s
heads and we collected our certificates of
marriage to him.
Can you describe how it felt like being with
him?
Fela was a true living legend. He was the
one and only man that God put in our
midst, but people never knew his worth
until he was gone. Fela was always
chewing music in his mouth whatever he
was doing. Whether he was eating, driving,
or with a woman in the room, he was
always chewing music in his mouth with
his pen and paper with him always. He
was very good at writing in short-hand; in
fact he was good at everything you can
ever think of. There was nothing he did
wrong; except you didn’t know him. He
was a messiah; if we had given him a
chance, Nigeria would have changed, but
people like Obasanjo never gave him a
chance.
Whenever Fela wanted to make music, he
sang about the things around him.
Talking about bedroom matters, how did
Fela rotate between his numerous wives?
Fela always called his wives based on
how he enjoyed them; if he did not enjoy
you, he would not call you. Even after the
marriage, it continued like that.
Source:www.naijists.com/ex-wife-of-late-fela-reveals-shocking-details-about-him/

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Fela is a fuckki.ng legend

Nothing Secretive Here.



27 Wives in one day



Chai, to have Fela on bed, one must be extremely good.





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