Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian educator and political organizer whose work linked women’s education with anti-colonial activism. She led the Abeokuta Women’s Union in campaigns against discriminatory taxation and for women’s political representation, helping establish mass women’s organizing as a force in Nigerian public life. She also advocated women’s enfranchisement and Nigerian independence, becoming one of the country’s most prominent twentieth-century women’s-rights leaders.