Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
8 Jun 2024
If there is anything the award-winning theatre director and filmmaker, Bolanle Austen-Peters, has proven to be passionate about, then
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Dr. Akpa Chidinma, an Aesthetic physician, and CEO of CurvyGirl Essentials who also served as the medical team lead for Hilda Baci’s cook-a-thon, hosted an exclusive private screening of the historic film "Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti," directed by the esteemed Bolanle Austen-Peters. The event, held at Cube Filmhouse Cinemas IMAX in Lekki, Lagos, gathered distinguished women for…
16 May 2024
Generations of schoolchildren have grown up being taught that Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria.
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Award-winning actress Omowunmi Dada has offered insights into her transformative role as Grace Eniola Soyinka, the esteemed mother of Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, in the biopic ‘Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti’. Directed by Bolanle Austen-Peters, and Ibrahim Taofik, the movie, which hit the cinemas on Friday, May 17, chronicles the remarkable journey of Ms Ransome-Kuti, a trailblazing politician,…
13 May 2024
Terra Kulture, Lagos, buzzed with the presence of Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun and esteemed guests at the premiere of "Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti" Biopic. Crafted by Bolanle Austen-Peters, the biopic paints a vivid picture of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, highlighting her role as a champion for justice and mother of Afrobeat legend, Fela.…
3 May 2024
Among the responses to last week’s column on Bobrisky was the surprise by one of the readers that there is so much difference between man and woman beyond the physical and the physiological. In the physical, the most obvious being in the reproductive features. A reader asked: “You mean there is so much that is disparate in the total make-up of women and that of men beyond the obvious?”
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