The riots/ war led by women in the Calabar and Owerri provinces of southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929 became known as the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929 in British colonial history and Aba Women’s War in Igbo history.
Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt against the policies imposed by British colonial administrators in southeastern Nigeria. This riot is one of the most serious challenges to British rule in the history of Nigeria.
It took the colonial government two months to suppress the Aba women’s riots which became a historic example of feminist and anti-colonial protest.
Causes of the Aba Women’s Riots of 1929-15+ Minutes Video: Father Caught In Unspeakable Position With His Daughter In Lagos Hotel (Don’t Open In Public)
The roots of the riots evolved from January 1, 1914, when the first Nigerian colonial governor, Lord Lugard, instituted the system of indirect rule in ..Continue..Reading..
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