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I recall once again that the "riots" or the war, led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nigeria in November and December of 1929, became known as the "Aba Women's Riots of 1929" in British colonial history, or as the "Women's War" in Igbo history. Thousands of Igbo women organized a massive revolt against the policies imposed by British colonial administrators in southeastern Nigeria, touching off the most serious challenge to British rule in the history of the colony. The "Women's War" took months for the government to suppress and became a historic example of feminist and anti-colonial protest.
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On the 1st of July, 2014, APC`S Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State received over 2,000 Market Women from across the 18 Local Government Areas of the state that paid him a solidarity visit at the Government House, Benin City while on the 4th of July, 2014, Edo State market women have thrown their weight behind the leadership of Edo State chapter of the People’s Democratic Party in their quest to bring sanity into the political system in the state and the party’s desire to reclaim the number one position in the state with their solidarity visit to the PDP` s Secretariat.
Can Edo State Market women do the same and make history as to the tone of Aba Women`s Riots of 1929?
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