"I Wasn't Ready For Marriage" - Kaffy Opens Up

Kaffy 

Popular Nigerian dancer and choreographer Kafayat Shafau, better known as Kaffy, has recently opened up about her divorce, stating that she was not prepared for marriage.

Her marriage to Joseph Ameh ended in January 2022 after several years together. While Kaffy has spoken about the separation in the past, describing it as a case of misaligned destinies, noting she was celibate in the marriage for three years prior, and emphasizing personal growth and healing.

Kaffy shared that she entered marriage without adequate preparation or education on its realities and demands. She highlighted the need for better awareness and readiness before committing to such a lifelong partnership, framing the experience as a painful but valuable lesson.

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Kaffy has previously stressed that divorce doesn't diminish a woman's worth or her capacity for future love, provided there's healing and self-improvement.

“I was not educated enough for marriage and a lot of us aren’t, our parents are not preparing us enough, living through their eyes is not enough education about marriage.

“It is a special course that needs to be taken, we can’t have a society that issues you marriage certificate easier than drivers license like it’s harder to get the drivers license but it’s much easier to get a marriage certificate but it’s inside this home that all the ills of the society are being built.

“There’s a lot of mental health situations and assessments that needs to go on.Its not only counselling that they should do. They should do mental evaluation of the couple.

“It should be a mandatory requirement that drug test, mental evaluation, couples therapy, all of these things, there need to be a one year programme of human behavioural sciences that they need to go before two people come and damage another human being that they would bring to life”.