Ransome-Kuti family

The first member to bear the name Ransome, the Reverend Josiah Jesse "J.J." Ransome-Kuti, adopted it in honour of the Anglican missionary who had first converted his family to Christianity. He followed his father Likoye Kuti — an Egba griot — into the musical vocation, and wrote a series of popular hymns in the Yoruba language while serving as an Anglican cleric. 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 a Grammy Award winner who founded and led a political party and three Grammy nominees). The Ransome-Kutis have been known to form marital unions with other families of the Yoruba elite: the branch descended from Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti is a sept of the aristocratic Jibolu-Taiwo family of Egbaland by virtue of its descent from her, while the one descended from the Reverend Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, the husband of Grace Eniola Jenkins-Harrison, is related to the royal family of Isara-Remo through him. In 2017, in Abeokuta, the house on NEPA Road where the family of Israel and Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti lived was transformed into the Ransome-Kuti Museum, dedicated to the history of the family. ==Family tree==

• Olasu (c. 1750–c. 1820) • Jamo (c.1785–c.1850) m. Orukoloku (c.1795–c.1870) • Likoye Kuti (c.1820–c.1863) m. Anne Ekidan Efupeyin (c. 1830–July 1877) • Eruwe Lousia Kuti (c.1857–19??) • Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti (1855–1930), clergyman and the first person to use the double-barrelled family name, m. Bertha Erinade Anny Olubi (1862–1934) • Josiah Oluyinka Ransome Kuti (1883–c.1960) • Anne Lape Iyabode Ransome-Kuti (1885–c.1960) • Grace Eniola Jenkins-Harrison (1908–1983) (Grace Eniola Soyinka) m. Samuel Ayodele Soyinka • Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (1934) (Wole Soyinka), writer, Nobel laureate, among others • Olufela Daniel Ransome-Kuti (1887–1887) • Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (1891–1955), clergyman, m. Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas (1900–1978) (Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti), political activist • Dolupo Ransome-Kuti (1922–2010) • Frances Kuboye (d. 1997), dentist/jazz singer, m. Tunde Kuboye (Engineer/musician) • Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (1927–2003), doctor • Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (1938–1997) (Fela Kuti), musician, m. Remilekun Taylor, among others • Omoyeni Anikulapo Kuti, (b. 1961) (Yeni Kuti), dancer, m. Femi Segun • Rolari Segun (b. 1988) • Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti, (b. 1962) (Femi Kuti), musician, m. Funke Kuti, dancer/music manager (now divorced) • Omorinmade Anikulapo Kuti, (b. 1995) (Made Kuti), musician • Sola Anikulapo Kuti, (1963–1997), dancer • Kunle Anikulapo Kuti, (b. circa 1971), folk singer, m . Olufunmilayo Hastrup (b. 1964) • Omosalewa Anikulapo Kuti, lawyer, m. Fehintola (1958–2006) • Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti, (b. 1982) (Seun Kuti), musician • Motunrayo Anikulapo Kuti, (b. 1980), dancer • Bekolari Ransome-Kuti (1940–2006), (Beko Ransome-Kuti), doctor and political activist • Enitan Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian Army officer • Joshua Oluremi Ransome-Kuti (1894–c. 1970) • Susannah Olubade (1898–1898) • Victoria Susannah Tinuade Ransome-Kuti (1899–1980) • Azariah Olusegun Orisale Ransome-Kuti (1902–1979) • Yemisi Ransome-Kuti (1947), current chief of the family • Olusegun Bucknor • Bola Soyemi • Oluwaseun Olasupo Soyemi • Eniola Anuoluwapo Mofoluwaso Soyemi ==See also==