Ogun State, Nigeria,[2] to a middle-class family. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a feminist active 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 medical doctor brothers, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, were both well known in Nigeria.

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