“Someone told me my son might be killed due to my political interests.” — Femi Kuti
When he was growing up, we spent 6 years in the shrine because they were sending thugs and police to raid, so the only way to stop that was to move into the shrine. So, I put all my adopted children and my son upstairs, and then, somebody comes to me and said, what if they kill your son?
So, I thought it was a political message because I was very political at that time. Social media wasn’t as it was today so, people will raid, police will raid here, and nobody will talk, and the press was against me for whatever reason they had against me.
All I had was my son. My son, my elder sister, and her daughter, but my son was closer because he’s my son. So, I moulded him and gave him all the opportunities I didn’t have — musically and otherwise. So everybody thought I was bringing him up as a spoilt child and people would say I was spoiling him, and I would say, ‘He’s like a flower; I’m giving him sunlight, and watering him.”
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