On the 20th of January, 1925, she married the Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome Kuti. The marriage produced the activists Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a musician, Beko Ransome-Kuti, a doctor, and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a doctor and health minister of Nigeria. She was the first woman in Nigeria to drive a car and to ride a bike He also defended the commoners of his country, and was one of the founders of both the Nigerian Union of Teachers and of the Nigerian Union of Students. Ransome-Kuti received the national honor of membership in the Order of Nigeria in 1965. The University of Ibadan bestowed upon her the honorary doctorate of laws in 1968. She also held a seat in the Western House of Chiefs of Nigeria as an oloye of the Yoruba people.

Sky-walker:
were cars not very few back then?

Sky-walker:
Maybe u right but i have always though only the rich could buy a car then and were they good roads that could go to the village back then? i think for you to drive a car back then, you must be kind off educated in a way because cars back then will be like magic to people

afam4eva:
I think one of the reasons why Fumilayo Kuti is credited with this title is because she was in the public eye at that time. I'm not sure though.

Sky-walker:

or mayb she went for a driving school course or something which made her more credible.

ndu_chucks: This woman was known as the First Nigerian woman to drive a car and also the First Nigerian woman to ride a motorcycle. The number of cars and motorcycles present in Nigeria and their locations were known to the authorities, hence no one has been able to dispute the claim.

People will soon turn this into another tribal war. SMH

ndu_chucks:
People will soon turn this into another tribal war. SMH

alj harem: Yawns Ayam

@ OP

Yes she was because we only had few cars back then in Nigeria and we could even count it, it was that bad

Thus those that said so could not have been wrong.

afam4eva:
Isn't it possible that one of the few people that had cars then allowed their wives to drive a car inside their compound without seeing it as an acheivement.

afam4eva:
I think one of the reasons why Fumilayo Kuti is credited with this title is because she was in the public eye at that time. I'm not sure though.

Onlytruth: It cannot possibly be right.

afam4eva:
There were few cars then but don't you think that in one remote village or town, a woman could have driven a car even if she was been thought how to drive.

ndu_chucks: This woman was known as the First Nigerian woman to drive a car and also the First Nigerian woman to ride a motorcycle. The number of cars and motorcycles present in Nigeria and their locations were known to the authorities, hence no one has been able to dispute the claim.

People will soon turn this into another tribal war. SMH

Onlytruth: It cannot possibly be right.

engineerd: The height of joblessness! What a meaningless thread by an empty vessel. I feel even ashamed i clicked to make a comment! LOAD OF CRAP!

afam4eva: Whoever gave this woman that title couldn't have been right you know. How did they know that someone did not drive a car before her and was not captured. I can understand that of the first woman to fly a plane because planes were very few in the country at that time and people would definitely notice if one flew a plane. Especially if it's a woman.

afam4eva: Whoever gave this woman that title couldn't have been right you know. How did they know that someone did not drive a car before her and was not captured. I can understand that of the first woman to fly a plane because planes were very few in the country at that time and people would definitely notice if one flew a plane. Especially if it's a woman.