It begins with Reverend Josiah Jesse "J.J." Ransome-Kuti, who adopted the name ‘ransom’ in honour of the Anglican missionary that had first converted his family to Christianity. He followed his father Likoye Kuti - an Egba griot - into the musical vocation, and wrote a series of popular hymns in the Yoruba language while serving as an Anglican cleric.
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