Achievements of funmilayo ransome kuti biography

Nigerian activist (1900–1978)

ChiefFunmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON ( /ˌfʊnmiˈlaɪjoʊ ˈrænsəm ˈkuːti/); born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas; 25 October 1900 – 13 April 1978), also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerianeducator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women's rights activist.

Achievements of funmilayo ransome kuti biography

Fumilayo Ransome Kuti was born in Abeokuta, in what is now in Ogun State, and was the first female student to attend the Abeokuta Grammar School.^[1] As a young adult, she worked as a teacher, organizing some of the first preschool classes in the country and arranging literacy classes for lower-income women.

During the 1940s, Ransome-Kuti established the Abeokuta Women’s Union and advocated for women’s rights, demanding better representation of women in local governing bodies and an end to unfair taxes on market women. Described by media as the "Lioness of Lisabi",^[2]: 77 she led m