Entertainment of 2026-08-31
‘My dad kicked me out of the house when I was 5’ – KiDi recalls
Ghanaian musician KiDi has opened up about a childhood incident in which his father kicked him out of the family home when he was about five years old as punishment for his troublesome behaviour.
The award-winning singer made the revelation during an interview with Kafui Dey, shared on August 29, 2026.
According to KiDi, he was a particularly stubborn and energetic child whose behaviour frequently left his parents wondering about the kind of child they were raising.
He recalled that whenever his parents bought him new shoes for school, he would often use them to play with stones, returning home with the shoes damaged.
“My dad kicked me out of the house when I was about 5 years old, and it was the straw of many things I had done. I was a very stubborn kid; I was notorious. When they bought me a shoe for school, I used the shoe to go and play stones, and by the time I got home, the shoe would get spoilt,” KiDi recounted.
He said his school uniform was also regularly covered in so much dirt that it appeared as though he had been involved in a serious fight.
“All kids go to school and play and dirty their uniforms, but the dirt on my uniform, it’s as if I fought with lions,” he stated.
KiDi explained that his repeated behaviour became a source of concern for his parents, who often returned home to find him in another situation.
“Every day when I come home, they would look at me in confusion, and they wondered what kind of child I was,” he shared.
He narrated the particular incident that eventually led to his father asking him to leave the house.
According to him, on one occasion after school had closed, his parents were late to pick him up, leaving him waiting outside with his teacher.
The teacher reportedly sent him to retrieve something from her table. However, KiDi said he did not hear exactly what she had instructed him to do.
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Instead, he assumed she had asked him to go and eat the waakye on her table.
“One time, school closed, and they were late to pick me up, so I was just waiting with the teacher outside. She sent me to go and pick something up from her table, but I didn’t hear exactly what she said. I assumed that she asked me to go and eat the wakye on her table. I went to the class and finished the wakye,” he recalled.
When he eventually returned home, his father was displeased.
KiDi stated that his father instructed his sister to remove everything he was wearing and told him to leave the house with nothing because of his persistent “notorious” behaviour.
“When I went home, my dad told my sister to remove everything I was wearing. He said I should leave the house with nothing, and since I wanted to be a notorious child, I should go and live it somewhere else,” he narrated.
He also mentioned that his family eventually dressed him in only his church shoes before sending him out of the house.
As he walked away, however, the young KiDi broke down in tears by the roadside.
His father then called him back and asked whether he had realised that he was crying because he was going to miss his family.
“They wore me just my church shoes and nothing else and threw me out of the house. When I was walking out, I started crying by the roadside. Then my dad called me back and asked if I saw how I was crying because I was going to miss them,” he noted.
Despite the incident, KiDi admitted that the punishment did not immediately change his behaviour.
“I didn’t learn my lessons after that because I kept being a notorious child,” he added.
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