Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti has blamed organised religion for the rape epidemic in Africa, saying women walked around naked for thousands of years before the coming of Christianity and Islam.

Afrobeat singer Seun Kuti has blamed organised religion for the rape epidemic in Africa, saying women walked around naked for thousands of years before the coming of Christianity and Islam.

The 38-year-old made the point in a social media post on Monday in which he declared that “women were not created for men.”

According to the youngest son of famous Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, 95 percent of rapists are either Christians or Muslims, adding that as long as people still respect institutions and ideologies that encourage and strengthen the rape culture, women will never be safe.

The Afrobeat singer, who leads his father’s former band “Egypt 80”, stated this on his Facebook and Instagram pages respectively.

Kuti spoke two weeks after actor and comedian Baba Ijesha was arrested for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl.