Ransome-Kuti Family
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The Ransome-Kuti family is a Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

n family noted for its contributions to Nigerian art, religion, education, medicine and politics.
  • Olasu
    • Jamo m. Orukoloku
      • Likoye Kuti, (c. 1825 - c. 1862) m. Ekidan Efupeyin
        • Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti (1855–1930)-clergyman, m. Bertha Amy Olubi (1862–1934)
          • Grace Eniola Ransome-Kuti m. Samual Ayodele Soyinka
            • Wole Soyinka
              Wole Soyinka
              Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...

               (1934)-writer
          • Azariah Olusegun Ransome-Kuti (1900–1979)
            • Yemisi Ransome-Kuti
              Yemisi Ransome-Kuti
              The only child of Azariah Olusegun Ransome-Kuti who was appointed Chief Pharmacist for the Federation of Nigeria in 1956 until retirement from federal Medical Service. In 1951, he was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire 1951 by King George VI. She is also the...

               (1947)
              • Olusegun Bucknor
              • Bola Soyemi
              • Oluwaseun Olasupo Soyemi
              • Eniola Anuoluwapo Mofoluwaso Soyemi
          • Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (1891–1955)-clergyman, m. Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas
            Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
            Funmilayo Ransome Kuti ,, born Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas to Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas and Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosolu, was a teacher, political campaigner, Women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat...

             (1900–1978), political activist
            • Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
              Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
              Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a paediatrician, activist, was a health minister in his native Nigeria.-Early life:He was born in Ijebu Ode in 1927, in present day Ogun State, Nigeria...

               (1927–2003)-doctor
            • Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti
              Fela Kuti
              Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela , was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.-Biography:...

               (1938–1997) (Fela Kuti)-musician, m. Remilekun Taylor
              • Yeni Anikulapo Kuti b. 1961-dancer
              • Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, b. 1962 (Femi Kuti)-musician, m. Funke Kuti-dancer/music manager (now divorced)
                • Made Anikulapo Kuti, b. 1997-musician
              • Sola Anikulapo Kuti, (1963–1997)-dancer
              • m. ??
                • Kunle Anikulapo Kuti, b. cira 1971-folk singer
              • m . Olufunmilayo Hastrup b. 1964
                • Omosalewa Anikulapo Kuti-lawyer
              • m. Fehintola (1958–2006)
                • Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti, b. 1982 (Seun Kuti)-musician
                • Motunrayo Anikulapo Kuti, b. 1980, dancer
            • Bekolari Ransome-Kuti
              Beko Ransome-Kuti
              Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian medical doctor known for his work as a human rights activist.-Early life:...

              (1940–2006)-doctor/political activist
            • Dolupo Ransome-Kuti
              • Frances Kuboye (d. 1997)-Dentist/Jazz singer

External links

  • The Shrine The Unofficial Website for Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music. With biography's of Fela, Femi and Seun Kuti.
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