The Aba Women’s War took place in south eastern Nigeria in 1929. By the late 1920s, restrictive colonial practice affected women in Igbo, Efik and Ibibio ethnic groups in Nigeria as societal structures weakened. These women took their traditional practice of “sitting on a man” to rebel against British rule by destroying symbols of colonial rule. The war remains a key example of colonial authority challenged through a mass bodily display of female power - and is seen as a prelude to the African nationalism movement in decades to come.

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Book: The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria, by Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent

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