Yeni Kuti Gives Thoughts on Young Men Marrying Older Oyinbo Women

Conversation has been happening online about the trend of young Nigerian men marrying older oyinbo women with no issue, while at the same time, scowling at the idea of marrying older Nigerian women. The conversation was generated when a Twitter user by the name of Senator Shehu Sani said: "Why do African young boys marry European grand mums but don't want to marry African grand mums?"

The ladies of TVC's Your View got a hold of this tweet and also chose to have a conversation about the topic. One panelist especially, Yeni Kuti, couldn't wrap her head around it and spoke deftly against it expressing why she cannot accept it and what she would have done if her own nephew, Made Kuti, who recently got married, had come back with a much older woman. Here is what Yeni Kuti had to say on the matter.

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Speaking on the topic of young men marrying much older women, Yeni Kuti said:

YENI KUTI: Excuse me, my nephew just got married and he's like my son. He has a beautiful 20 something year old wife. If Made had come with my agemate, I don't care if she's even more beautiful than me, and said this is my wife? HA! I would become a Christian and cast and bind! I would have been casting and binding. Even if she's a billionaire, and so therefore what? And so what? So it's my own grandson, my own son, that you want to use. Ah no oh! Sorry. That kayamata, I would know it exists on that day. WHAT?! His father has spent all this money, has dedicated you, has done all these things. You now come with agemate? Your father's agemate?! Can you give him children? It's not even about children, you want to marry a person that I'll be calling aunty?! If you're 35 and your girlfriend is 40, no problem. You're 25, your girlfriend is 30, no problem. But when it's 30 years, 25 years age difference? Ha!

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