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Remembering Afro beat legend Fela Kuti. He had 27 wives at one point

Musician and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, once married twenty seven (27) women in one day in 1978. . He lived with all these women in the same house in a compound which he referred to as Kalakuta Republic.

He divorced all of the wives later.

Rest on son of the soil

Africa's Longest Serving Presidents of All Time

1. Teodoro Obiang - 46 years - Equatorial Guinea 🇬🇶

2. Paul Biya - 43 -Cameroon🇨🇲

3. Omar Bongo - 42 - Gabon🇬🇦

4. Muammar Gaddafi (late)- 42 - Libya 🇱🇾

5. Denis Sassou Nguesso - 41 - Congo 🇨🇬

6. Yoweri Museveni - 40- Uganda 🇺🇬(considering latest election results)

7. Gnassingbé Eyadéma (late) 38 years - Togo 🇹🇬 His son succeded him.

8. José Eduardo dos Santos (late)- 38 - Angola 🇦🇴

9. Robert Mugabe (late) - 37 - Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

10. Félix Houphouët-Boigny (late)- 33 - Cote d'Ivoire 🇨🇮

11. Mobutu Sese Seko (late) - 32 - DR Congo 🇨🇩

12. Isaias Afwerki - 32 - Eritrea 🇪🇷

13. Idris Déby (late) - 30 - Chad 🇹🇩

14. Omar al-Bashir (ousted)- 30 - Sudan 🇸🇩

15. Hosni Mubarak (late) - 30 - Egypt 🇪🇬

16. Habib Bourguiba (late) - 30 - Tunisia - 🇹🇳

17. Mathieu Kérékou (late)- 29 - Benin 🇧🇯

18. Hastings Kamuzu Banda (late)- 28 - Malawi 🇲🇼

19. Kenneth Kaunda (late)- 27 - Zambia 🇿🇲

20. Blaise Compaoré (ousted) - 27 - Burkina Faso 🇧🇫

21. Ismaïl Omar Guelleh - 26 - Djibouti 🇩🇯

22. Ahmed Sékou Touré (late)- 26 - Guinea 🇬🇳

23. Paul Kagame - 25 - Rwanda 🇷🇼

24. Daniel arap Moi (late) - 24 - Kenya 🇰🇪

25. Julius Nyerere (late)- 24 - Tanzania 🇹🇿

26. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (late)- 23 - Tunisia 🇹🇳

27. Moussa Traoré (late)- 23 - Mali 🇲🇱

28. Yahya Jammeh (voted out)- 22 - Gambia 🇬🇲

29. Siad Barre (late) - 22 - Somalia 🇸🇴

30. Meles Zenawi (late) - 21 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹

31. Faure Gnassingbé - 20 - Togo🇹🇬

Source: Africa First ()