Letters: Freedom fighter

I trust that the Kalakuta Commune will acknowledge that Fela Kuti inherited some of his politics from his mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (Fela Kuti's persecutors now dancing to the new tune, 20 October). Having set up a women's group to campaign against a variety of injustices to women and Nigerians in general, she founded the Federation of Nigerian Women's Societies in 1953 and became a very active member of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, struggling for independence. In the ...

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