Notable singer, Femi Kuti has recounted how teachers beat him more in school when he was much younger just because he is Fela’s Son
Femi, who is the first son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, explained in a recent interview that some of his teachers hated him for being the son of the Afrobeat star.
The award-winning saxophonist said that while he expected to be treated fairly, some teachers would pass would pass their hatred for his father to him.
Femi explained that being in school was quite depressing for him as teachers who had a vendetta against his father would beat him more simply because he was a blood relation of Fela.
He said, “School was a very depressing time for me because you had the teachers that liked him and teachers that didn’t like him so if I get into trouble with the teachers that didn’t like Fela they would beat me more because they don’t like my father.
“I later got to know they had a vendetta against my father. They have rich children in the same school and they didn’t like me because I was Fela’s son, they say your father smokes Indian hemp and I also tell them their father is a slave.”
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