{UAH} Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti,

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as Lioness of Lisabi, led the women's movement in her region of Southwest Nigeria and played an important role in the independence movement. Born as Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas in 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, she became the first female student to enroll in Abeokuta Grammar School, before traveling to Cheshire in England to continue her education. By the time she returned home, she'd dropped her birth names and preferred to speak Yoruba. In 1932, she co-founded the Abeokuta Ladies Club (renamed the Abeokuta Women's Union in 1946), committed to defending women's political, social and economic rights. Funmilayo had four children – a daughter and three sons. One of her sons was Afrobeat legend and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. On February 18, 1977, approximately 1,000 soldiers stormed Fela's Kalakuta Republic in Lagos. During the raid, Funmilayo was thrown from a second-storey window. She sustained injuries from which she never recovered and died at the General Hospital in Lagos on April 13, 1978.

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