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Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti (2 August 1940 – 10 February 2006) was a Nigerian physician known for his work as a human rights activist . Early life. Ransome-Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. His mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti opposed indiscriminate taxation of women by the British colonial government.
23 de ago. de 1997 · Dr Ransome-Kuti, the 56-year-old former head of the Nigerian Medical Association and a long-time human rights activist, was arrested in July, 1995, for alleged participation in a coup plot. After a secret military trial he was sentenced to life in prison, later reduced to 15 years after an international outcry.
11 de feb. de 2014 · TV360 Nigeria. 172K subscribers. Subscribed. 12. 2K views 10 years ago. Eight years after the death of renowned Nigerian pro- democracy and human rights activist, Beko Ransome Kuti, Nigerians...
His brothers Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, were well known nationally. [5] Kuti is a cousin [11] to the writer and laureate Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize for Literature winner. [12] They are both descendants of Josiah Ransome-Kuti, who is Kuti's paternal grandfather and Soyinka's maternal great ...
11 de mar. de 2006 · Ransome-Kuti—known to all as Beko—saw his 78-year-old mother thrown from a first storey window, young men beaten up, and women raped, says his friend Patrick Smith, now editor of Africa Confidential magazine. “I think that was a turning point for Beko”, Smith says.
Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, Fela's brother, dies at 65 ...of lung cancer. The nation on Friday night lost another prominent pro-democracy and human rights activist, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, barely two months after the tragic death of the former Secretary of the Campaign for Democracy (CD), Mr. Chima Ubani. Beko, as he was fondly called, 65, died as a ...
Dr. Beko RANSOME-KUTI NIGERIA El 16 de junio de 1998 fue liberado el doctor Beko Ransome-Kuti, ex director de la Asociación Médica de Nigeria y activista en favor de la democracia y los derechos humanos. Había sido arrestado el 27 de julio de 1995 y cumplía una condena de 15 años de prisión tras haber sido juzgado
