“A Woman’s Place Is In The Kitchen? Which Kitchen? Whose Kitchen? Seun Kuti Questions Toxic Masculinity

Seun Kuti, Afrobeats singer and son of legendary Afrobeat champion Fela Kuti is admonishing men to stop attaching their toxic masculinity to African culture.

The leader of the Egypt 80 who follows his father’s political and social ethos wrote this in a new post on social media, see below:

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A woman’s place is in the kitchen? Which kitchen? Whose kitchen? Not our ancestors kitchen! This proverb is European without any equivalent in any African language. So before you start attaching your toxic masculinity to African culture ask yourself this, do I know African culture? As an African what culture practices of African heritage do I engage in? Religion education liberation? If the answer is none, how come u want to suddenly become African to subjugate and oppress your woman? Ain’t no such thing as half way crooks. You are either African or u aren’t , there is no picking and choosing especially when you want to dump ur toxic self on our women. REAL AFRICANS ELEVATE THE FEMININE FORM #getthesax

A post shared by Seun Kuti (@bigbirdkuti) on Jun 30, 2020 at 3:30am PDT

Photo Credit: Alexis Maryon