Tag: “Coffin for head of state and Unknown Soldiers” – Things to know about Fela Kuti

Fela was born Olufela Oludotun Ransome Kuti in Abeokuta, Ogun state on 15 October 1938, to a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was a famous front-line activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome- Kuti, a protestant minister and a school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian…