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Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by oluFELAxy(m): 8:18am On Oct 25, 2016
This is one family that really rocked Nigeria.
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Chipappii(m): 8:21am On Oct 25, 2016
orimsamsam:
Omo ale olodo.

Fumilayo ransome kuti is greeter than all Igbos heroes combined together
Brain receipt please.
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by orimsamsam(m): 8:24am On Oct 25, 2016
Chipappii:
Brain receipt please.
for this one eyes e go think say e make sense ni
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by okonja(m): 8:25am On Oct 25, 2016
This isn't necessary mehn! undecided
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Chipappii(m): 8:26am On Oct 25, 2016
orimsamsam:
for this one eyes e go think say e make sense ni
Receipt
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by ShaqFu: 8:29am On Oct 25, 2016
Bitterleafsoup:
Unknown Soldiers = Sufferheads a.k.a Zombies a.k.a Beast Of No Nation a.k.a Egbekegbe a.k.a Bad Society a.k.a Army Arrangement a.k.a I.T.T (International Thief Thief) a.k.a V.I.P (Vagabonds In Power)

This is the same life we find ourselves in
LOL. I'm sure you don't belong into any of the category you mentioned?
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by chacoonder(m): 8:30am On Oct 25, 2016
femi4:
Who owns Olikoye ransom Kuti?
Olikoye is one of her children.what i was trying to infer is that he was the black sheep of the family because his ideology was totally different from the rest of the family's.Do u get me now?
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by RentALodge:
I highly respect this woman. She founded an organization for women in Abeokuta, with a membership tally of over 20,000 individuals spanning both literate and illiterate women. Mrs. Ransome-Kuti launched the organization into public consciousness when she rallied women against price controls which were hurting the female merchants of the Abeokuta markets. Trading was one of the major occupations of women in the Western Nigeria of the time. In 1949, she led a protest against Native Authorities, especially against the Alake of Egbaland. She presented documents alleging abuse of authority by the Alake, who had been granted the right to collect the taxes by his colonial suzerain, the Government of the United Kingdom. He subsequently relinquished his crown for a time due to the affair. She also oversaw the successful abolishing of separate tax rates for women. In 1953, she founded the Federation of Nigerian Women Societies which subsequently formed an alliance with the Women's International Democratic Federation. Happy birthday! She lives on!


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Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Wizzyblack3(m): 8:32am On Oct 25, 2016
youngaz:
What a gruesome way 2 die...
She's d 1st woman 2 drive car in Nigeria uhn? And i know dey were rich...bt why did his son (Fela) turn like dat...i mean he really gave d govt sleepless night bt why was he obsessed wit sex like dat...coz "dey said" he slept wit all dose ladies dah used 2 dance 4 im...therefore contracting AIDS...wow!...wat a life...
Rest in peace and nt in pieces oo Funmi
Reading all ur sh*t up there, Ransome Kuti will be like

Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by toby2(m): 8:42am On Oct 25, 2016
and so two silly-bug-heads start tribalism this early...
In Fela's voice: trouble sleep yanga go wake am... Wating e dey faaaain...
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by toby2(m): 8:42am On Oct 25, 2016
and so two silly-bug-heads start tribalism this early...
In Fela's voice: trouble sleep yanga go wake am... Wating e dey faaaain...
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Lemonade01(m): 8:50am On Oct 25, 2016
Jalubarika:
She must have loved sex too bad.
She liked being on top while the man being under.
She loved fame and power.
I say it again, She loved Upper-Cut.
Brain-dead orangutan undecided
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by Antoeni(m): 9:51am On Oct 25, 2016
Rugged woman
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by kinglai2: 9:54am On Oct 25, 2016
[quote author=Suurulere post=50485014]Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti (nee Thomas) was born on 25 October 1900, in Abeokuta . Her father was a son of a returnee slave from Sierra Leone, who had traced his ancestral history back to Abeokuta in what is today Ogun State, Nigeria.

Throughout hercareer, she was known as an educator and activist. Shefounded an organization for women in Abeokuta, with a membership tally of over 20,000 individuals spanning both literate and illiterate women.

In 1949, she led a protest against Native Authorities, especially against the Alake of Egbaland . She presented documents alleging abuse of authority by the Alake, who had been granted the right to collect the taxes by his colonial suzerain, the Government of the United Kingdom.

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti campaigned for women’s votes’ She was for many years a member of the ruling National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons party, but was later expelled when she was not elected to a federal parliamentary seat. At the NCNC, she was the treasurer and subsequent president of the Western NCNC women’s Association. However, she never truly ended her activism. In the 1950s, she was one of the few women elected to the house of chiefs.

In old age her activism was over-shadowed by that of her three sons, who provided effective opposition to various Nigerian military juntas. In 1978, Funmilayo was thrown from a second-floor window when her son Fela’s compound, a commune known as the Kalakuta Republic, was stormed by one thousand armed military personnel. She lapsed into a coma in February of that year, and died on 13 April 1978, as a result of her injuries.

Afonja killing afonja......she was killed by obasanjo....haaaaa AfOnJa
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by anonymuz(m): 10:39am On Oct 25, 2016
I think you are mentally imbalance. You flat headed.
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by pelumzy007(m): 12:59pm On Oct 25, 2016
youngaz:
What a gruesome way 2 die...
She's d 1st woman 2 drive car in Nigeria uhn? And i know dey were rich...bt why did his son (Fela) turn like dat...i mean he really gave d govt sleepless night bt why was he obsessed wit sex like dat...coz "dey said" he slept wit all dose ladies dah used 2 dance 4 im...therefore contracting AIDS...wow!...wat a life...
Rest in peace and nt in pieces oo Funmi
U are a disgrace to humanity disrespecting dead Nigerian heroes. Who are you to judge fela or anyone in his family. The Ransome kuti family name would always be part of Nigeria history but I can't say the same for urs. HIV/Aids negative pastor
Re: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti's 116th Posthumous Birthday Is Today by uchaymart(m): 2:44pm On Oct 25, 2016
youngaz:
What a gruesome way 2 die...
She's d 1st woman 2 drive car in Nigeria uhn? And i know dey were rich...bt why did his son (Fela) turn like dat...i mean he really gave d govt sleepless night bt why was he obsessed wit sex like dat...coz "dey said" he slept wit all dose ladies dah used 2 dance 4 im...therefore contracting AIDS...wow!...wat a life...
Rest in peace and nt in pieces oo Funmi
NO DOUBT!! You grew up listening to LIES. Was there AIDS when fela died? And who told you he slept with all the women that danced for him?? You lack HISTORY...
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