Photo credit: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti on her seventieth birthday, photograph by UNESCO. Sourced from Wikimedia Commons and used under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 licence.

Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian teacher, women's rights campaigner and nationalist. She founded and led the Abeokuta Women's Union, whose mass protests against the taxation of market women contributed to the Alake of Abeokuta abdicating temporarily in 1949. She later led the Nigerian Women's Union and received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1970. Injured when soldiers raided her son Fela's Kalakuta compound in February 1977, she died on 13 April 1978.

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