By Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole

Though he has three wives and twelve offspring, King Sunny Ade has become a spokesman for family planning in his native Nigeria. Two songs in Wait for Me, his top-selling album with songwriter Onyeka Onwenu, warn of unintended parenthood. Sample: "Making love is beautiful/ but don't forget/ you can make children sometimes/ when you don't want to." Is there a discrepancy between the man and his message? "Experience is the best teacher," Ade has said. "I know the problems that I go through daily."