Great Upheaval Byfield Judith A.
Great Upheaval Byfield Judith A. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women's Union and…
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Great Upheaval Byfield Judith A.
In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women's Union and then of Nigeria's first national women's organization, the Nigerian Women's Union, in 1949. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. These organizations became ground zero for a new political vision of a vehicle for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship.
Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making that not only tells a story of women's postwar activism but grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the "upheaval."In capturing the dynamism of women's political activism in Nigeria's postwar period, Byfield illuminates the centrality
Great Upheaval Byfield Judith A.
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