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THE 1929... NIGERIAN ABA WOMENS WAR... ON THE BRITISH... On this day in 1929 the Aba Womens War was sparked. Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt against the policies imposed by British colonial administrators in southeastern Nigeria, touching off the most serious challenge to British rule in the history of the colony. The Womens War took months for the government to suppress and became a historic example of feminist and anti-colonial protest. The Aba Womens War of Nigeria effectively arose out of: *A fear that the British would tax women separately from men.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 03:36:42 +0000

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