Nigerian-French musician Asa has revealed how she advised her mum to leave her father because of his abusive nature. The award-winning singer made the revelation in a Blackbox interview with Ebuka Obi-Uchendu.
Asa disclosed that her father who passed away in 2016, was abusive to her mum and harsh to his children.
“He’s austere and disciplined. I take those but what I’m not is the way he brought us up. He was a disciplinarian and, yes, abusive to my mum. With the kids, he overdid it to keep us straight. It was too confusing,” she said.
“You love and then hate. I found myself unsteady around him. I saw him abuse my mum. It disturbed me for years. I thought all men were like that for a while until my grandfather who has been with his wife for 50 years said no.”
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Asa revealed that her late dad’s attitude to her mum made her detest marriage. However, her mum left the marriage in an unexpected separation that her dad temporarily blamed her for.
“I told my mum, ‘hey, woman, what are you doing here? You need to leave’. I was a little girl and she didn’t listen. I thought, if this is it, I don’t want to get married. Looking back, I don’t think they were compatible.”
She said we were not going to come back. This was in Jos. We left dad there and came back to Lagos. He figured it out that we’d left him. It took months of planning and I was looking at mum like, ‘when did you wake up?’
Dad was mad at us. He said I was in on it. He took it out on me. There were things I wish I’d told him that he failed to see. I did tell him some things and he only stuttered. It took courage. I was scared of him, even on the phone, ” she added.
Bukola Elemide Aka Asa was born in Paris to Nigerian parents who were working and studying cinematography in France. Her family returned to live in Nigeria when she was two. Aṣa grew up in Lagos city, in the southwestern part of Nigeria, and 18 years later, returned to Paris, where her life as an artist took off.
Watch full interview of Asa and Ebuka Obi-Uchendu below
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