Nigerian filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, says his late father\u2019s choice of 10 wives took a toll on him.<\/p>\n
Afolayan spoke during a chat with BBC Pidgin on Wednesday wherein he reflected on his growing up in a polygamous family and foray into filmmaking.<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old said Adeyemi Afolayan, his late father, was also a renowned filmmaker during his days before he passed away in 1996.<\/p>\n
According to him, Adeyemi, however, got \u201cdistracted\u201d by his knack for polygamy.<\/p>\n
The filmmaker said he cannot marry many wives, having witnessed what happened to his father.<\/p>\n
He also revealed that his late father gave birth to 25 children, adding that they struggled to bond in their early days due to language and other barriers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would not want to marry many wives because my father had 10 wives and I knew what happened throughout that period. I knew that really distracted my father. In this age, nobody needs to tell you before you know what\u2019s right,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The movie director and producer also narrated how he battled poverty and other challenges in his early days in the movie landscape before he rode into the spotlight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was born in Ebute-Metta and have lived in one-room apartment before that we even have to grapple with flood sometimes. It\u2019s not shame to say you have been poor before. But if you see how l made it, it\u2019s a matter of consistency. My father was a very popular filmmaker and ordinarily, people would expect me to live the kind of life akin to Hollywood stars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that wasn\u2019t the case. How would one live such life when you\u2019re living in a room with ten women. That doesn\u2019t mean there was no love among us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Citing himself as an instance, Afolayan enjoined the youth and aspiring filmmakers to always start with the little resources at their disposal as they strive to achieve their major dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigerian filmmaker, Kunle Afolayan, says his late father\u2019s choice of 10 wives took a toll on him. Afolayan spoke during a chat with BBC Pidgin on Wednesday wherein he reflected on his growing up in a polygamous family and foray into filmmaking. The 45-year-old said Adeyemi Afolayan, his late father, was also a renowned filmmaker […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1307,1306,1308,1309,1305],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-10-wives","tag-choice","tag-distracted-him","tag-kunle-afolayan","tag-late-father"],"yoast_head":"\n