Made Kuti Defends Choice to Marry Igbo Woman

Made Kuti Slams Ethnic Bigots Over Criticisms of His Marriage

Afrobeat singer Made Kuti, grandson of the legendary Fela Kuti, has fired back at critics attacking his marriage to Inedoye Onyenso over ethnic differences.

Kuti and Onyenso tied the knot in a civil wedding in Lagos in November 2023, but the union has faced backlash from some who accused the couple of “mixing blood.”

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Responding to a recent post by an X user who branded him a “foolish Yoruba man” for marrying an Igbo woman, Made dismissed such views as “slave mentality.”

“Believing ethnic superiority or inferiority is justifiable is slave mentality,” Kuti declared, urging critics to educate themselves with the works of Pan-Africanists such as his great-grandmother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, his grandfather Fela Kuti, Kwame Nkrumah, and Thomas Sankara.

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He stressed that Africa stands to gain more through unity, not division.