[1] One of his brothers, Fela Kuti, was a musician and activist who founded Afrobeat; another, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, was also a physician and an AIDS campaigner.
He was deeply affected by the events of 1977, when soldiers under the orders of T. Y. Danjuma, then Chief of Army staff, stormed his brother Fela Kuti's[3] nightclub, destroyed his medical clinic and killed his mother.
He became chairman of the Lagos branch of the Nigerian Medical Association and its national deputy, campaigning against the lack of drugs in hospitals.
[5] Ransome-Kuti helped to form Nigeria's first human rights organisation, the Campaign for Democracy, which in 1993 opposed the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha.
In 1995, a military tribunal sentenced him to life in prison for bringing the mock trial of Olusegun Obasanjo to the attention of the world.