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Remembering BIAFRAN Women's "ACTIVITIES" Of NOVEMBER 1929 by Milkyways: 1:59am On Nov 08, 2015
The Aba Women's Riots, also known as the Women's War (Igbo: Ogu Ndem or Igbo: Ogu Umunwaanyi), was an insurrection in British Nigeria which occurred in November 1929. The revolt broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and other places in eastern Nigeria travelled to the town of Oloko to protest against the Warrant Chiefs, whom they accused of restricting the role of women in the government. The Aba Women's Riots of 1929, as it was named in British colonial records, is more aptly considered a stratefically executed anti-colonial revolt organised by women to redress social, political, and economic grievances. The protest encompassed women from six ethnic groups (Ibibio, Andoni, Orgoni, Bonny, Opobo, and Igbo) It was organised and led by the rural women of Owerri and Calabar provinces. During the events, many Warrant Chiefs were forced to resign and sixteen Native Courts were .......... Source., wikipedia.org

Some Writers claim that women marched all the way from Patani, Ahaoda, Yenegoa to Aba.
Wonderful, I believe our generation can re-enact this movement, One day.........Soon.

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Re: Remembering BIAFRAN Women's "ACTIVITIES" Of NOVEMBER 1929 by BrightEye(m): 4:33am On Nov 08, 2015
Well, then, they were not doing so under the name Biafra.

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