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3 Facts about Funmilayo Ransome Kuti.!
Educator, political campaigner, and women’s rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas on October 25, 1900, in Abeokuta, Nigeria, to prominent farmer Chief Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas and dressmaker Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosolu.
Ransome-Kuti was one of only six girls admitted to Abeokuta Grammar School in 1914.
Her education there was the springboard to an all-girls finishing school in England. It is there, in the 1920s, that she discovered socialism and anti-colonialism and strengthened her ties to her people.
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After graduation, she returned to Abeokuta, where she became an educator.
At 25, she married Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a school principal and community activist. The couple were married for 30 years and had four children, including international music superstar Fela Ransome-Kuti.
Marriage forced Ransome-Kuti out of teaching but left her to pursue her passion for politics.
In 1928, she started a