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Lagos market women organize around taxation and municipal policy

Lagos women traders used petitions, associations, and market networks to resist policies that threatened livelihoods.

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1932

Lagos market women organize around taxation and municipal policy

Lagos women traders used petitions, associations, and market networks to resist policies that threatened livelihoods.

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Lagos women traders used petitions, associations, and market networks to resist policies that threatened livelihoods. Their activism connected urban economics to anti-colonial politics.

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