“You lick ice cream reach Fela?” – Seun Kuti
Controversial Nigerian artist Seun Kuti has revealed that his late father, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, would have his personal assistant (PA) travel to London to buy him chocolates and ice cream.
"It is a game to make you feel inferior"
– Seun Kuti pic.twitter.com/5jfG0ZO4yF
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He noted that his father demonstrated the absurdity of anyone who argued that being a pan-Africanist meant suffering.
He added that Fela’s helper would travel from Nigeria in the morning and arrive in London in the afternoon to buy the Afrobeats pioneer’s favorite candies, following which he would return that evening.
In a video posted online, Seun Kuti blasted those who believe he and other Pan-Africanists should live austere lives devoid of luxury and worldly pleasures.
He said: “Anybody in this world that says to you to be a Pan Africanist is to struggle, means to suffer is a liar. Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Fela too na liar? Fela no be Pan- Africanist, you lick ice cream reach Fela?
Fela go send him PA, Tuesday morning flight to London that wan go leave Nigeria by 10am,e go arrive London by 3pm. He has to go to Bon street to buy Fela’s favourite sweet.”
