Veteran Nollywood actor, writer, lawyer and movie producer, Kanayo O. Kanayo, has expressed his views on monogamy in an episode of ‘The Honest Bunch’ podcast from Nigeria.
Kanayo expressed that monogamy is foreign to African culture and African’s ought to not endorsed it as it is against our ancestral traditional culture.
The 62-year-old emphasized that monogamy was an imported culture, favoring polygamy.
“I don’t believe in one wife. It is not our culture. It is not our tradition. It is not who we are. These are imported things,” Kanayo expressed
Furthermore, he claimed of never knowing about divorce until he moved to Lagos from the South East.
The actor famous for outstanding ritual acting roles stated that the Igbo man would rather die in marriage than get a divorce.
“I never knew anything about divorce until we came to Lagos. The Igbo man prefers to die in the marriage than divorcing.” He claimed.
However, contrary to Kanayo O Kanayo stance on monogamy the actor is known to be married to one woman, Nneka Onyekwere.