{"id":83418,"date":"2023-07-20T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/?p=83418"},"modified":"2023-07-20T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T11:21:42","slug":"who-was-the-first-woman-to-drive-a-car-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzznigeria.com\/who-was-the-first-woman-to-drive-a-car-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was the First Woman to Drive a Car in Nigeria?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Funmilayo Kuti was the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria in 1951 at the age of 51. Famous as the mother of the Afrobeats sensation, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, she was a women’s rights activist, educationist, and politician born on 25 October 1900. <\/b><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Before Funmilayo Ransome Anikulapo Kuti broke the jinx and drove as a woman in Nigeria, indigenous men had driven cars for over 3 decades in the country. She also achieved the feat as the first female to be accepted into the Abeokuta Grammar School. In her way, history has marked her for setting a pace that women in Nigeria can achieve anything.<\/p>\n As you would rightly find, Fela’s mother, Funmilayo Kuti, was the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria. Before then, she rode a bicycle as a means of transportation while her husband, Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti used a motorcycle. Around March 1935 or July 1936, Funmilayo and her husband decided to purchase two cars from England from their limited means of livelihood.<\/p>\n However, the activist never drove any of the cars and she had to write to her lawyer for a change since the cars had issues. Well, before then, she had never had anything to do with cars,<\/a> but it taught her a lot about cars.<\/p>\n Coming from a household that appreciated education, Oluwafunmilayo’s parents enrolled her in school early. From 1906 to 1913, she attended St. John’s Primary School, Igbe, Abeokuta, and headed to Abeokuta Girls Grammar School.<\/p>\nWho Was the First Woman to Drive a Car in Nigeria?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Who Is Funmilayo Ransome Kuti?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti’s Education<\/strong><\/h3>\n