Celebrity photographer Busola Dakolo on Monday celebrated the late women’s rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and two other women on International Women’s Day.
Busola, in separate posts on Instagram, shared pictures of the women, highlighting the roles they have played in history and their impacts in other people’s lives that made them stand out.
About Funmilayo, Busola highlighted the jobs the activist played as a trainer, suffragist, and political campaigner.
“During the 1940s, Ransome-Kuti established the Abeokuta Women’s Union and fought for women’s rights, demanding higher representation of girls in neighborhood governing bodies and an end to unfair taxes on market girls,” the photographer wrote.
“Described via media because the ‘Lioness of Lisabi’, she led marches and protests of up to ten,000 women, forcing the ruling Alake to temporarily abdicate in 1949.”
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