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    Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON ( /ˌfʊnmiˈlaɪjoʊ ˈrænsəm ˈkuːti/; born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas; 25 October 1900 – 13 April...
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    voice" of international significance. Kuti was the son of Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. After early experiences abroad, he and...
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  • Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti is a 2024 biopic about the life and times of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a renowned Nigerian activist and mother of Afrobeat Legend...
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  • Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria. ISBN 9780252066139. Johnson-Odim, Cheryl; Mba, Nina Emma (1997). For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of...
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  • Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a prominent political campaigner and women's rights activist, and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a...
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    descendants of J.J.'s son, the Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, and Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti include a health minister (who had also served as a...
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    pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Femi Kuti began his...
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  • activist. Ransome-Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. His mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti opposed indiscriminate taxation of women by the British colonial...
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  • Funmilayo is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Funmilayo Olayinka (1960–2013), Nigerian banker and politician Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti...
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    also the granddaughter of the Rev. Canon Josiah Ransome-Kuti. Her aunt Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a foremost feminist in Nigeria who was also part...
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    for her contribution to the arts. Her movie, based on the life of Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is known as the "All time highest grossing biopic in West Africa"...
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    Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (30 April 1891 – 6 April 1955)[self-published source] was a Nigerian clergyman and educationist. Israel was born on 30 April...
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    which provided a wide framework for legislation across Africa. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (FRK) was born in 1900 and studied in England in 1922. She returned...
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    Kuti's album Zombie, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was thrown from a second-story window during a military raid by one thousand Nigerian soldiers on Kuti's compound...
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    and member of the aristocratic Ransome-Kuti family. She co-founded the Abeokuta Women's Union with Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, her aunt-in-law. They protested...
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    Pablo Picasso, Oscar Niemeyer, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, CV Raman and Nelson Mandela. The prize was created as the International...
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  • Zombie (album) (category Fela Kuti albums)
    government; and it is thought to have resulted in the murder of Kuti's mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and the destruction of his commune by the military. The...
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    of the Nigerian women's movement under the leadership of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Fela Kuti's mother). Democracy in colonial Nigeria after 1922 only existed...
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  • descendant of the Ransome-Kuti family. Her grandmother was Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Anikulapo-Kuti pioneered the idea of Felabration...
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  • the Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU) emerged under the leadership of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a headteacher of a local school, who had heard of the struggles...
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    Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. She replaced Tony Award-nominee Lillias White as Fela's mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and performed with the production...
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    outside of Abeokuta in 1948 due to tax related demonstrations led by Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a member of the regional House of Assembly, but later returned...
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    Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, an Oloye of the Western House of Chiefs....
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  • Family Jazz Band. Born into the Ransome-Kuti family, she was the granddaughter of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and niece of Fela Kuti. Kuboye was born in Halifax...
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    Omo Daddy (2023) as Perosola Balogun Domino Effect (2023) as Rita Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (2024) Everybody Loves Jenifa (2024) Not Right (2014) as Kunnbi...
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    amongst the new leadership that inherited power. For example, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (the daughter of a Saro chief that had once traded palm produce)...
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    Mulika Lakatabu (2024) as Tunmise All of Us (2024) as Elijah's Mum Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (2024) as Mrs. Thompson Ijogbon (2023) as Chidera What No One knows...
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    businessman. Shina Rambo, bandit Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, women's rights activist. Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, professor of pediatrics, former Minister...
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  • (d. 1973) 1900 – Johan Greter, Dutch equestrian (d. 1975) 1900 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian educator and activist (d. 1978) 1900 – William Stevenson...
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    while his brother, Fela Kuti, founded and led the Movement of the People political party. Their mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a founding mother...
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