Veteran Nigerian singer, Onyeka Onwenu has opened up about how she turned down the marriage proposal of Afrobeat Legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the eighties. Onyeka revealed this in her new autobiography, titled “My Father’s Daughter”. According to her, she is a possessive lover and did not understand Fela’s love for women.
Narrating how Fela proposed marriage, Onyeka wrote: “The second time I saw Fela was in 1984, a few years after I had returned from the United States. He had just been released from jail.
He was arrested for attempting to travel with his band for a gig in London with the sum of 1,600 pounds. The money was for their hotel accommodation.”
“After he was released from prison, Fela sent a mutual friend, journalist Onuorah Udenwa who is now a US-based pastor, to bring me to his club. I thought that he probably wanted to thank me for speaking up for him, but that was not it.”
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“He never even mentioned the article I had written in solidarity with him. Fela wanted to marry me, and I was flattered. I thanked him for the honour of wanting me to become his consort. But I turned him down all the same.”
The music legend added that she waited at the club to see him. However, she noticed that his Queen (dancer-wives) was looking at her with scorn.
“They passed by often, whispering comments about me. They were downright hostile and quite obvious about it.
I pointed this out to him and told him that I was a possessive lover. I would not be able to cope as an appendage to his harem but Fela laughed.”
Meanwhile, the autobiography, released on 1st October 2020, is a personal account of the life of the iconic musician. “My Father’s Daughter” also chronicles Onwenu’s life as an activist, wife, mother, and politician.
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