The mother of popular moviedirector-producer, Kunle Afolayan featured
on a recent edition of the ongoing Supermom reality TV show where she
gave an account of her experience bringing up her children in a
polygamous home that had a sojourner as head.
The 69-year-old
woman told the story of how she got married at a very early age to her
late husband, Ade Love whose profession as a movie maker caused him to travel frequently.
According to her, her husband non availability and his preference to invest in his business coupled
with
the polygamous nature of the home exposed her to so much trauma. She
soon ventured into the sale of puff puff and later, pepper soup.
Shortly
before Kunle was five years old, she says, they were thrown out of the
house and had to temporarily put up in a friend’s house, ‘All we did was
spend the night there. I was pregnant with my last child then and would
sit outside in the cold till the mama would come back, freshen up and
then ask us to come in and sleep…it wasn’t convenient because there were
bed bugs in the room and I had to stay up in the nights to keep them
from biting my boys‘, she said.
Not long after, they got a place
of theirs to stay but like the mighty wind in the popular fairy tale, a
flood came one day and destroyed all her properties. She had to start
from the beginning.
Kunle who is now a popular actor and
internationally-acclaimed movie maker, says although things are better,
he can not forget those days when his mother sold her wrappers to get
him educated.
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