“Do I Look Like;” Nigerian Movie Guru Afolayan Posts Veiled Response to Viral Video of Dance With Daughter

• By Halimah Olamide

Popular Nigerian movie maker and actor, Kunle Afolayan, has made a veiled response to controversies surrounding his dance with his daughter which has sparked debates in the last 24 hours.

Afolayan was seen in a video dancing with his daughter in a manner many have condemned is unwarranted between a father and a grown up daughter.

The video was said to have been made during the after party which took place after the premier of his latest work Anikulapo: The Rise of the Spectre.

But shortly after it went viral, many have disagreed over the appropriateness of such dance between a father and his daughter.

While Afolayan has not responded to the controversies of the last 24 hours, he posted on his social media page Tuesday evening, “I am a King! I am a child of the most high! You can only try Love surpasses everything Do I look like …”

https://twitter.com/i/status/1762495396201603258

Many believe his post is an indirect response to those who had condemned him and his daughter over the dance.

Some of the online comments which preceded Afolayan’s post include those below:

@nnenna_blinks_ said, “It’s okay for father and daughter to show their love for each other while dancing. The only PrOblem here is the way the dance is carried out. Her rubbing her backside to his front side while he holds her is a dance for couples, or potential couples. It doesn’t sit right with me.”

@king_jozef, berated,

“A woman I am not intimate with will not dance with me like this…talk more of that woman being my very own daughter. Whoever finds this rubbish okay is probably sleeping with his daughter if it’s a man, or sleeping with her father if it’s a man.”

“I know my own father loves my sister and all of us his children but this kind of dance is shocking. It’s not our business but the amount of people acting like this is normal dey scare me.” @the_obeks added.

@fikunademii said,

“In yoruba land, this is totally wrong and unacceptable…It’s a taboo and abomination..This is not love but seduction, adultery and fornication. Don’t mix it up.”