Grace Eniola Soyinka (née Jenkins-Harrison; 1908–1983[1]) was a Nigerian shopkeeper, activist, and member of the aristocratic Ransome-Kuti family.

[2] They protested against taxes introduced by the Alake of Abeokuta, the ruler backed by the colonial authorities.

In childhood Grace Eniola had been sent to live with her grandparents, uncles and aunts, to all of whom she was close.

[5] The second of their seven children[1] was Wole Soyinka, writer and 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.

Wole Soyinka gives an account of his parents' home life and his mother’s activism in his 1981 memoir Aké: The Years of Childhood.