Beko Ransome-Kuti

Bekololari Ransome - Kuti ( born August 2, 1940 in Abeokuta, † 10 February 2006 in Lagos), popularly known as " Beko ", was a Nigerian politician, civil rights activist and physician.

Training

His basic education he graduated from 1945 to 1950 in the class of his mother, the famous women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, who was also a dedicated teacher. Then he came to Abeokuta Grammar School, at which his father was for years director. From 1957 to 1958 he studied in Coventry ( United Kingdom) at Technical College and then at Manchester University, where he graduated as a doctor from 1958 to 1963 in 1963. In 1964 he returned to Nigeria, where he practiced until 1977 at various government hospitals and eventually opened his own practice. Even in Manchester Beko was Chairman of the Nigerian Students' Association have been in Nigeria he presided over various associations of medical professionals, including the the Nigerian Medical Association, Lagos.

Political career

While his parents had made ​​an impassioned struggle for independence of Nigeria from the colonial power, Britain, to Beko felt called to act for the freedom of his countrymen in the now newly independent country against the abuses of democracy in Nigeria and the human rights violations under the long-lasting phase of military dictatorships. His brother Fela Kuti sued the arrogance of those in power in political texts, which he effectively dressed with his Afrobeat in music. Beko tried legal means to whose effectiveness he believed unswervingly to draw the rulers accountable. For years he led an unsuccessful lawsuit against the then military dictator Olusegun Obasanjo, whom he blamed for a brutal military crackdown, the consequences of which his mother had died in 1978.

Even during the years under Ibrahim Babangida has been that grew during the years of the Abacha dictatorship to the central stronghold of resistance Ransome - Kuti chairman of the Campaign for Democracy ( CD). The CD developed under Bekos restless initiative forms of nonviolent protest, that were publicly effective and cost a minimum of human life. On June 25, 1995 Abacha did imprison him on charges of treason and condemned in a show trial to life imprisonment. One week after Abacha's death on 8 June 1998 ordered his successor General Abdulsalami Abubakar Bekos release, along with eight other prominent political prisoners.

In his last years Beko had been involved in leading position at the Pro- National Conference Organizations ( PRONACO ), an organization in which politicians, human rights activists and lawyers for reform of the Nigerian Constitution, the federal system and the democratization of Nigeria, against authoritarian centralism use and corruption. Bekololari Ransome - Kuti was president of the Committee for the Defense of Human Rights ( CDHR ). On December 10, 1997, he was honored with the Human Rights Award of the City of Weimar.

  • Civil rights
  • Politicians (Nigeria )
  • Nigerian
  • Born in 1940
  • Died in 2006
  • Man
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