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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