Nollywood actress Moji Afolayan has spoken about her views on polygamy, revealing that she never intended to marry into a polygamous family because of her childhood experience.
The Yoruba actress made this known during an interview with African A-List, where she explained that growing up in a polygamous household exposed her to experiences she would not want another woman to go through.
Moji said although she had no plans to become part of a polygamous family, she eventually married a man who had been married before, with his first wife already deceased at the time of their union.
She noted that the circumstances surrounding her marriage were different from a situation in which a man deliberately takes another wife while still married.
Prompt News reports the actress also criticised people she described as online in-laws, accusing them of judging women in marriages without understanding the challenges they face privately.
Speaking about her position on marrying a man who intends to take another wife in the future, Moji maintained that she would not have agreed to such an arrangement.
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“I grew up in a polygamous home, so I know what I experienced. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. Although the man I married was a widower, his wife had died before I married him.
“And considering the age at which I married him, someone who had been married before and already had children was where I was supposed to end up and spend the rest of my life? But God understood everything. That is how I ended up in his house.
“We have online in-laws who always interfere. They don’t know what the woman in the house is going through.
“I have said it before: I wouldn’t marry someone who would later take a second wife. I don’t have money, and you don’t have money. We both married each other as we were. It wasn’t someone who came from nowhere; I said this before I got married.
“If you think you can disgrace a woman, or punish her without reason, the woman will repay you manyfold.
“If you sow into a woman’s life, she will give back multiple seeds.
“If you sow aggression into your woman’s life, she will give you multiple aggressions.
“That is why I am still alive today, and my father played his part too,” she said.
