Popular saxophonist, Femi Kuti, has revealed how depressing his childhood was because he was the child of the Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
In a recent interview with Chude Jideonwo, With Chude, Femi narrated how it was tough going to school when he was a child because it was always a mixed feeling.
He said some students bullied him because of his father’s personality. And some teachers would purposely beat him because they didn’t like his father.
According to him, some liked his father and others didn’t and he was always the victim of their feelings and thoughts.
He said, “School was a very depressing time for me because you’ve teachers that liked him and teachers that didn’t like him.
“So, if I got into trouble with a teacher that didn’t like him, that teacher will just beat me because he didn’t like my father. I later came to the realization that they had a vendetta against my father.
“Don’t forget, the elite’s children were in the school. So, you have the rich children in the same school and they didn’t like me because I was Fela’s son.
“They would say, ‘your father smokes igbo your father is pant.’ And I would reply, ‘your father too is a slave’.
“My mouth was like a razor blade. If you abuse my father, by the time I abuse you, you will cry.”
