He has two brothers namely; Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome Kuti. His two brothers are well known medical doctors in Nigeria. Fela Kuti is also the cousin to famous Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win Nobel Prize for Literature.
He attended Abeokuta Grammar School, where he completed both his primary and secondary school education. Later he was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine and surgery, but he decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music in London. While in school, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife music.
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