When history comes knocking, you have to figure out what to do.
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Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, pictured center, in stripes.
The archives of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, University of Ibadan.
Note: The internet version of this episode contains un-beeped curse words. BEEPED VERSION.
Mother Knows Best
Jad Abumrad tells the story of the "ideological genealogy” of Fela Kuti’s anti-colonial politics–his mother. In late 1940s Nigeria, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti found herself at the center of a big, historical moment: an uprising led by thousands of women selling goods in Nigeria’s markets. Jad goes searching for who she really was, and how she became the person who galvanized a movement when history demanded it of her. (45 minutes)
Jad’s podcast series Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is a production of Audible and Higher Ground, in conjunction with Talkhouse and Western Sound.
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