The 1962 Electoral act made it explicitly illegal for women in Northern Nigeria to vote, women like Hajia Gambo Sawaba, a Nigerian women's rights activist, politician and philanthropist, fought tirelessly to gain the right to vote and be voted for. 

Also on this week's episode:

Kofo Ademola - First black african woman to get a degree from Oxford University;

Kofo Abeni Pratt - First Black NHS Nurse and Commissioner for Health in Lagos, 1973;

Kofo Bucknor Akerele - First Deputy Governor of Lagos State in the Fourth Republic.