Celebrity photographer Busola Dakolo on Monday celebrated the late women’s rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and two other women on International Women’s Day.
Busola, in separate posts on Instagram, shared pictures of the women, highlighting the roles they have played in history and their impacts in other people’s lives that made them stand out.
About Funmilayo, Busola highlighted the roles the activist played as a teacher, suffragist, and political campaigner.
“During the 1940s, Ransome-Kuti established the Abeokuta Women’s Union and fought for women’s rights, demanding better representation of women in local governing bodies and an end to unfair taxes on market women,” the photographer wrote.
“Described by media as the ‘Lioness of Lisabi’, she led marches and protests of up to 10,000 women, forcing the ruling Alake to temporarily abdicate in 1949.”
Busola also celebrated the late Mexican painter Magdalena Calderón and American TV personality Oprah Winfrey.
