Nigerian comedian and actor, Okechukwu Anthony Onyegbule, popularly known as Okey Bakassi, has claimed that polygamy is the best form of marriage for Africa.

According to him, monogamy isn’t working.

Speaking on the Honest Bunch Podcast, Bakassi claimed many are pretending to be happy in monogamous marriages.

He said, “Forget all the lip services that we pay to polygamy here. I still think that polygamy is the best form of marriage for Africa. Monogamy is not working.

“We are pretending. Now, what’s the difference between polygamy and monogamy? Polygamy says you can marry two people at the same time. Monogamy says you cannot marry them at the same time, you have to let one go. What if you don’t want to let one go?”

Meanwhile, in August 2023, Popular Kannywood actor, Ali Nuhu, said polygamy does not appeal to him even though he is a Muslim.

The actor said he believed polygamy has the tendency of disrupting some things in marriage, and fairness cannot be adequately guaranteed.

“The way I look at marriage is that as long as you and your wife have been living peacefully together, and also think that you can’t be fair if you bring another wife, or that marrying a second wife could disrupt some things, it’s better you continue to stay with only one wife,” Nuhu who has been married for over two decades told Gabon’s Room in a show hosted by a Kannywood actress, Hadiza Aliyu Gabon.