Before Fela, His Mother Was Already Fighting the System | Funmilayo Ransome Kuti
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She organized 10,000 women, surrounded a palace, and sang until a British-backed king fled. No guns. No army. Just solidarity and song. Meet Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti — teacher, mass organizer, anti-colonial activist, Lenin Peace Prize recipient, and the woman who raised Fela Kuti. In 1948, her Abeokuta Women's Union forced the abolition of unjust women's taxation and made a king abdicate. She later stood on the world stage — from international conferences in Europe to meetings with Mao Zedong in China. At 77, soldiers threw her from a window during a military raid targeting her son. She never recovered. Her face is on Nigerian currency. Her name is on schools. Her methods — mass organizing, economic boycotts, relentless protest — live in every generation of Nigerian women who have stood up since. This is Africa's Own. Pan-African history, told on its own terms. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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