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Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was the first President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (30 April 1891 – 6 April 1955) [2] [ self-published source ] was a Nigerian clergyman and educationist .
Ransome-Kuti, Israel Oludotun. 1891-1955 Anglican Communion Nigeria. Eminent Nigerian churchman, educationist and administrator, he was the founding president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Africa’s largest professional group. He was born on 30 April 1891, to an Egba family in Abeokuta.
Profession: Writer. Israel Ransome Kuti was a pioneer educationist and union activist, born 30 April 1891 in Abeokuta. Israel was like his father before him, an Anglican priest. When he left the Lagos Grammar School, he became the first pupil to be enrolled at Abeokuta Grammar School in 1908.
- ‘No Taxation Without Representation’
- Resistance
- How It All Began
- ‘Lioness of Lisabi’
- ‘We Had Equality Till Britain Came’
- ‘She Who Must Be Obeyed’
- ‘Communist Leanings’
- Bitter Electoral Experiences
Venerable Victor Sotunde, now 88 and a retired priest from the Anglican Communion of Abeokuta in western Nigeria, remembers Ransome-Kuti from his days as a young boarding student at Abeokuta Grammar School. Her husband, Reverand Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, was the school’s principal and the couple lived on the premises with their children. “Durin...
The women’s revolt against taxation had been rumbling for more than a decade before the water rate victory. In 1918, tax policies had been introduced that required women as young as 15, (the age at which they were considered marriageable) including those who were unemployed, to pay three shillings a year as income tax. Men, on the other hand, did n...
Born on October 25, 1900, Ransome-Kuti attended the co-educational Abeokuta Grammar School, where she was the first female student to enrol. In 1919, she went to Britain to study at Wincham Hall Schools for Girls in Cheshire, where she was taught subjects such as French, elocution, music and dress-making. But before she returned to Nigeria in 1922,...
It was, however, the 1943 “Great Weep” and 1948 tax revolt, which earned Ransome-Kuti the title “Lioness of Lisabi” (Lisabi being the traditional hero of the Egba people) in the press. The “Great Weep” episode saw women shed tears over the burden of income tax. According to a March 1959 report in South Africa’s Drum magazine: “Thousands of Abeokuta...
But there was no doubt as to where Ransome-Kuti laid the blame for the plight of Nigerian women. “We had equality till Britain came,” she wrote in an article published in the British communist newspaper, The Daily Worker. In it, she noted that before the British arrival in Nigeria, life was mainly agricultural and there was a fairer division of lab...
But not everyone agreed with Ransome-Kuti’s activities and her opponents found willing allies in the male-owned press. The Nigerian Tribune newspaper once called the AWU the “Terrorist Women’s Union of Abeokuta”. The same newspaper featured the headlines: Mrs F Kuti Must Be Checked, and That Woman Again. One article about the AWU, entitled Women Ma...
In 1958, the Nigerian government used Ransome-Kuti’s Daily Worker article from more than 10 years earlier, along with trips she had taken to China and the Soviet Union to speak about the plight of Nigerian women, as grounds to refuse to renew her passport. She had “communist leanings”, the government argued, and might spread communist messages to o...
In 1951, the MacPherson Constitution had expanded the right to vote, but it was only applied in southern Nigeria. The north still maintained its taxpayers-only voting policy, which Ransome-Kuti described as being designed to “eliminate women from the whole show because there were only few women who could afford to pay income tax”. The electoral reg...
The descendants of J.J.'s son, the Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, and Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti include a health minister (who had also served as a university professor), a political activist (who would himself later be adopted as an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience), and six further musicians (including one ...
Discover the remarkable story of Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, the lesser-known yet influential father of legendary musician Fela Kuti. As an eminent Nigeria...
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On 20 January 1925, Funmilayo married Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a member of the Ransome-Kuti family. [2] : 33 Israel had studied at the Abeokuta Grammar School several years ahead of Funmilayo, and while she was still in school the two had developed a friendship followed by a courtship.
