Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

Fumilayo Ransome thumb Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas; 25 October 1900 – 13 April 1978), also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political organizer, and women's rights advocate who intellectually engaged with anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, and feminist ideologies. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti also identified herself as an African Socialist. Quotes The true position of Nigerian women had to be judged from the women who carried babies on their back and farmed from sunrise to sunset, not women who used tea, sugar and flour for breakfast. You may have been born, but you were not bred! Would you speak to your mother like that? Ransome Kuti: The First Nigerian Woman to Drive a Car African women are not free. They are doubly oppressed — as Africans under colonial rule and as women in a society that denies them basic rights. Our struggle is one. Ransome-Kuti(1900 — 1978) External links Category:1900 births Category:1978 deaths Category:Educators from Nigeria