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Josiah Jesse "J.J." Ransome-Kuti (1 June 1855 – 4 September 1930) was a Nigerian clergyman and music composer. He was known for setting Christian hymns to indigenous music, and for writing Christian hymns in Yoruba.
Ransome-Kuti, Josiah Jesse 1855-1930 Anglican Communion Nigeria Nigerian clergyman and administrator. He was born on 1 June 1855 at Igbein, Western Nigeria. His parents belonged to the Egba Yoruba ethnic group, his father being a weaver, soldier and Egba diplomat.
Josiah Jesse Ransome Kuti; Hymnist and 19th Century African missionary in the Yoruba country. He is the patriarch of the Ransome-Kuti family of Nigeria, which produced distinguished personalities like his son, Israel Oludotun Ransome Kuti and his grandsons: Olikoye, Beko, and the celebrated Afrobeat performer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.
13 de feb. de 2015 · The second book, Josaiah Ransome-Kuti: The drummer boy who became a canon, is an abridged version of the first, and was published by Oxford University Press in Ibadan, as part of their “Makers of Nigeria” series.
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Rev. Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti was a musician, educationalist and cleric from Nigeria, renowned for composing Christian hymns in the Yoruba language and setting the Christian hymns to traditional music. He was born 1855, in Igbein, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.
Josaiah Ransome-Kuti, the drummer boy who became a canon. Responsibility. by Isaac O. Delano. Imprint. Ibadan, Oxford University Press, 1968. Physical description. 71 p. illus. 19 cm. Series. Makers of Nigeria.
