Fela Anklápó Kuti, also known as Abami Eda, was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist. He was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on October 15, 1938.
He is credited with founding the Nigerian music genre of Afrobeat, which fuses jazz and funk with West African music. His father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, was an Anglican priest, a school principal, and the founding president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers.
His mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was an anti-colonial feminist. Kutis’ parents were both involved in the Abeokuta Women’s Riots, which his mother led in 1946, and other anti-colonial movements in Nigeria.
Both of his brothers, doctors named Beko and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, were widely recognized in the country. Wole Soyinka, the first black African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Kuti are first cousins once removed.
Both of them are descended from Josiah Ransome-Kuti, who is the maternal great-grandfather of Soyinka and the paternal grandfather of Kuti.
Fela Kuti wife: Is married?
According to reports, Fela wed 27 women, but later divorced the majority of them. They all shared his residence with him in the small community known as the Kalakuta Republic.
Below is a list of 27 of his wives.
- Rumilekun Taylor
- Fehintola Kayode
- Damiregba
- KeuweOghomienor
- Folake Oladeinde
- Folake Oladejo
- Ronke Edason
- Laide
- Emaruagheru Osawe
- Ihase
- ShadeShodeinde
- Suru Eriomola
- Tejumade Adebiyi
- Tokunbo Akran
- Bose Anikulapo Kuti
- Lara Anikulapo Kuti
- Omolola Osaeti
- Ronke
- Adejonwo
- Naa Lamiley
- Funmilayo
- Kikelomo
- Remilekun
- Adunni
- Kikelomo Oseyni
- Serwaa Kuti
- Omowunmi Oyelede
