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His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigerian Union of Teachers. His brothers, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. Fela was a first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/Fela+Kuti","playStationPath":"/stations/113364684/play","stationId":113364684,"bioPath":"/music/Fela+Kuti/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Miles+Davis","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/039/03990ab68e6f20fbf82e9483a272374a_md.jpg","artistName":"Miles Davis","artistId":545,"station_id":113267567},{"musicPath":"/music/John+Coltrane","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/566/5661a1a29d4c1c33b07a32d98dfb3b1d_md.jpg","artistName":"John Coltrane","artistId":474,"station_id":113359382},{"musicPath":"/music/KOKOROKO","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/5bd/5bdd2f3f859494af7089ca7035acae25_md.jpg","artistName":"KOKOROKO","artistId":438160,"station_id":400843594},{"musicPath":"/music/Baaba+Maal","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/a2e/a2ef4c22df61b4845ad990d003f2904f_md.jpg","artistName":"Baaba Maal","artistId":3312,"station_id":113398166},{"musicPath":"/music/Lonnie+Liston+Smith","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/6e6/6e699dad48b25e06d01507c927c8bfac_md.jpg","artistName":"Lonnie Liston Smith","artistId":6612,"station_id":113461553},{"musicPath":"/music/DaVido","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/eee/eee79cb7bd3c17081da9dbfbb5996e31_md.jpg","artistName":"DaVido","artistId":420257,"station_id":399994715},{"musicPath":"/music/Hypnotic+Brass+Ensemble","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/efa/efab98969e0a2d337b2de8b6a005bb91_md.jpg","artistName":"Hypnotic Brass Ensemble","artistId":454836,"station_id":401236268},{"musicPath":"/music/Horace+Andy","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/847/8470e51149cf5278f91f459caab7e0df_md.jpg","artistName":"Horace Andy","artistId":442,"station_id":113270168},{"musicPath":"/music/Thundercat","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/6a5/6a5f7b1daead2fbaf787ebad76a539a4_md.jpg","artistName":"Thundercat","artistId":92685,"station_id":274276149},{"musicPath":"/music/Alemayehu+Eshete","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/fcb/fcbabaad3427bffdacbf530ba1fe77bc_md.jpg","artistName":"Alèmayèhu Eshèté","artistId":100331,"station_id":278734047},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Meters","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/243/243d4504097ce7b30f7c22d9c63dfc20_md.jpg","artistName":"The Meters","artistId":2762,"station_id":113359504},{"musicPath":"/music/Ramsey+Lewis","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/032/0324a7905a94fc515e46328416e36c75_md.jpg","artistName":"Ramsey Lewis","artistId":7723,"station_id":113262291},{"musicPath":"/music/Galactic","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/279/2797a24b29c61b93d595c990f93ff775_md.jpg","artistName":"Galactic","artistId":50860,"station_id":241782399},{"musicPath":"/music/Jorge+Ben","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/0ad/0ad0de9e10015d36b2fdacc0d67399de_md.jpg","artistName":"Jorge Ben","artistId":7205,"station_id":113728405},{"musicPath":"/music/Sly+The+Family+Stone","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/b6f/b6f89a28540a5b7724624bc7de9b9f03_md.jpg","artistName":"Sly \u0026 The Family Stone","artistId":679,"station_id":113263439},{"musicPath":"/music/David+Axelrod","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/c25/c25ef2aa9a721beb861558617114182c_md.jpg","artistName":"David Axelrod","artistId":9826,"station_id":113301033},{"musicPath":"/music/Angelique+Kidjo","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/481/481f862d390a47ec220788f9f37d992a_md.jpg","artistName":"Angelique Kidjo","artistId":10825,"station_id":113400815},{"musicPath":"/music/Can","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/3e2/3e21bbf0d588d64499d5bac9df5221bf_md.jpg","artistName":"Can","artistId":245,"station_id":113499293}]}