Black History : How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule​

How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule

Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women navigated male-dominated colonial institutions and structures of the time.African women acted in varied and complex ways to the situations they found...

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In view of the fact that Aba women at the present time suffer significant hardships regarding the high cost of staples, could you consider fixing the prices of foodstuff at certain fixed rates? (Aba Progressive Union – Petitions, 9/12/1928, National Archives, Enugu (NAE), Abadist 13/12/15. File No. 99/28)

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Bright Alozie, Lecturer in History, West Virginia University

Leaders of the Aba women's protest against a tyranical warrant chief in Nigeria in 1929. National Museum of Unity, Nigeria

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They were able to organize themselves roughly the same time women were fighting for voting equality in the States... Amazing times and amazing women