“I don’t believe in God, I believe in Nature” – Seun Kuti

Seun Anikulapo-Kuti, by every measure, is the true son of his father. The youngest son of the late Afrobeat maestro, has been in the news lately for different reasons. If he was not warning the government about removing fuel subsidy, he was demanding they don’t use his grandmother’s face on the proposed N5,000 note. This time around, Seun Kuti, is talking about God. He says he does not believe there is any supernatural being anywhere. “I do not believe in God. I am not a believer of anything supernatural. I don’t believe in God, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Ifa, Ogun, or whatever anybody uses as a reason to explain simple actions of nature. God, to me, is in existence,” he said. For those who were conversant with Fela’s ideologies, you would easily see they share the same opinion about a superior being. Instead,

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“Remove my grandmother’s face from N5,000 note” – Seun Kuti

Seun Kuti Seun Kuti, grandson of Funmilayo Kuti, one of the women whose pictures have been approved to appear on the proposed N5,000 note, yesterday said his grandmother would not approve of the image, if she were still alive. Kuti, who is a musician, spoke while appearing on a television programme. He said: “I do not have the power to stop the government from printing the note but I would want the government to remove my grandma’s face from the so-called note.” According to him, the Federal Government did not officially inform the Kuti family of the intended action. He said: “It was through the radio that we got to know that her face would be used…we were not officially contacted.”

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