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The Aba Women's War (also: Riots) of 1929 (Igbo: Ogu Umunwanyi; Ibibio: Ekong Iban) were a period of unrest in colonial Nigeria in November 1929. The protests broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and other places in Nigeria traveled to the town of Oloko to protest against the Warrant Chiefs, whom they accused of restricting the role of women in the government.
Nwanyeruwa // ⓘ, also known as Madame Nwanyeruwa, was an Igbo woman living in colonial Nigeria who gained prominence for her role in the Aba Women's Riots, better known as the Women's War. The revolt stemmed for the reluctance of Nigerian women to be taxed amidst the economic hardships of the Great Depression. After a scuffle with a male Igbo ...
After more protests, a mass of 10,000 women marched on Aba. Sources dispute the casualty rate, with 55 [6] to over 100 deaths being reported. [8] By the 1930s, Aba was becoming a large urban community with an established industrial complex. During the height of the Nigerian Civil War in 1967, the capital of Biafra was moved to Umuahia from ...
However, Nigerian women were still politically active during this period. They rose against the British. Some key occurrences are the Women's War of 1929, the 1929 Water Rate Demonstrations, and the Nwaobiala Movement in 1925.
In the early 20th century, Igbo women responded to political reforms during Colonial Nigeria by organizing protests against the Native Administration. "Sitting" on Warrant Chiefs emerged as a prominent form of resistance. The Women's War highlighted the adaptation of "sitting on a man" as a response to imposed indirect rule.
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Category: 1929 in Nigeria. 3 languages. ... Women's War This page was last edited on 2 March 2019, at 18:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
More than 300 boys and men... Many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in Nigeria. Police said the boys were freed in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic ...