Nigerian Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti has called on African governments to ban Kemi Badenoch, United Kingdom (UK) Conservative Party leader, from coming to Africa over her claims that Black nations should pay Europeans for colonisation.
Badenoch had allegedly described her upbringing in Nigeria as being overshadowed by fear and insecurity in a country plagued by corruption.
Chronicle NG reports that Kemi Badenoch has stood by her position on Nigeria, despite accusations from Vice President Kashim Shettima and others who claim she has denigrated the country.
Reacting during a recent Instagram live session, Kuti called for Kemi Badenoch ban from entering Africa.
“She’s someone who should be banned by African governments from stepping into Africa. Once she steps into Africa, she should be jailed.”.
He said, “Many have been praising this woman [Kemi Badenoch]; someone who has been insulting us, not only us but our ancestors. She said we should pay Europeans for colonialism.
“She’s saying we should pay them for killing millions of our ancestors; for all the atrocities that they committed in our lands.
Badenoch, born Olukemi Adegoke in Wimbledon in 1980, grew up in Lagos before relocating to the United States, where her mother worked as a physiology professor.
She later returned to the UK at the age of 16 to live with a friend of her mother’s owing to Nigeria’s political and economic issues, as well as to complete her A-Levels.
After marrying Scottish financier Hamish Badenoch, she took his surname.
Earlier this year, during the Conservative Party conference, Badenoch contrasted the freedoms she discovered in the UK with the dread she encountered growing up in Lagos, “where fear was everywhere.”
During a trip to the United States, she described Nigeria as “a place where almost everything seemed broken.”
Her experiences had a big impact on moulding her conservative values and positioned her against socialism, she explained.
