What the records say
- When
- Dec 1929
- Kind
- Riot
- Coordinates
- 9.00° N, 8.00° E
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Summary
Somorika Women, a Yoruboid people from Edo State
Women's War
1929 riots in Colonial Nigeria
The Women's War was a period of unrest in colonial Nigeria in November 1929. The protests broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and other places in Nigeria traveled to the town of Oloko to protest against the warrant chiefs, local men appointed by British colonial authorities to serve as administrative representatives and had no precedent in Igbo tradition, whom they accused of restr…
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