{"id":220596,"date":"2026-01-15T23:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-i-just-collected-120000-simply-for-being-felas-son-seun-kuti-reveals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:08:22","slug":"nigeria-i-just-collected-120000-simply-for-being-felas-son-seun-kuti-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-i-just-collected-120000-simply-for-being-felas-son-seun-kuti-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;I Just Collected $120,000 Simply for Being Fela&#8217;s Son&#8217; &#8211; Seun Kuti Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He revealed this while doubling down on his criticism of Wizkid FC, the fan base of award-winning singer Ayodeji &#8220;Wizkid&#8221; Balogun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has revealed that he recently received $120,000 simply for being the son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He made this statement while renewing his criticism of Wizkid FC, the fan base of award-winning artist Ayodeji &#8220;Wizkid&#8221; Balogun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Seun and Wizkid FC have been at loggerheads in recent weeks following comparisons between&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601150505.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He revealed this while doubling down on his criticism of Wizkid FC, the fan base of award-winning singer Ayodeji &#8220;Wizkid&#8221; Balogun. Nigerian singer Seun Kuti has revealed that he recently received $120,000 simply for being the son of legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. He made this statement while renewing his criticism of Wizkid FC, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,14416,44058,7800,257,4687,393,14326,24490,46399,10619,254],"class_list":["post-220596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collected","tag-felas","tag-kuti","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reveals","tag-seun","tag-simply","tag-son","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}