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140:. Her mother, Rev. Ransome-Kuti's first daughter, Anne Lape Iyabode Ransome-Kuti, married a Mr. Jenkins-Harrison. In childhood Grace Eniola had been sent to live with her grandparents, uncles and aunts, to all of whom she was close. She is often erroneously referred to as Rev. Ransome-Kuti's daughter. She married Samuel Ayodele Soyinka, an 133:, the ruler backed by the colonial authorities. They withheld the taxes, and eventually the Alake abdicated. The union, which had a membership of 20,000 women, eventually evolved into the national organisation the Nigerian Women's Union. 171:
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152:. Wole Soyinka gives an account of his parents' home life and his mother’s activism in his 1981 memoir 110:(née Jenkins-Harrison; 1908–1983) was a Nigerian shopkeeper, activist, and member of the aristocratic 395: 390: 137: 111: 272: 238: 188: 230: 180: 379: 333: 158:. In it, he called Grace "Wild Christian", in reference to her devout Anglicanism. 145: 88: 141: 184: 234: 192: 136:
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Wole Soyinka
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Ransome-Kuti family
Abeokuta Women's Union
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Alake
Abeokuta
Josiah Ransome-Kuti
Anglican
Wole Soyinka
Nobel Prize in literature
Aké: The Years of Childhood
doi
10.1016/j.wsif.2009.01.004
ISSN
0277-5395




doi
10.1017/S0022278X00011757
JSTOR
160896




"The Ransome-Kuti Dynasty"

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