Simi Ogunleye, Nigerian singer better known as Simi,said she opened up about a guy who had a crush on her when she was younger to her mother.
Simi made this known during a new episode of her talkshow tagged ‘Stoopid Sesssions’.
Making reference to how she was brought up as a girl in an African home, the ‘Jamb Question’ crooner said: “I had the better end of the bargain as a Nigerian child growing up because my mom was my friend .If I had a crush on a guy, I will tell her.
“There was this guy that had a crush on me and wanted to take me out to the cinema. I told him to come and tell my mom. He came and told her and also informed her about the time I will be back. She didn’t make me feel like I had to hide anything from her . I was comfortable enough to always go to her and because she had always given me some boundaries, and I know she has given me a certain level of freedom and trusted me , it also helped to curb my excesses. I didn’t want to disappoint her because of the level of trust she had in me” She said.
Expressing her dissatisfaction about gender roles in Africa, she said:”Women are groomed to learn how to cook, to clean the house, to be a homemaker, while the male child is trained to be the head of the house. That circle has continued for a long time. So when women grow up, they believe that is the purpose for their life”.