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Women's War / Aba Women's War

Women in southeastern Nigeria mounted mass protests against colonial warrant chiefs, taxation fears, and administrative abuse.

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1929

Women's War / Aba Women's War

Women in southeastern Nigeria mounted mass protests against colonial warrant chiefs, taxation fears, and administrative abuse.

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What happened

Women in southeastern Nigeria mounted mass protests against colonial warrant chiefs, taxation fears, and administrative abuse. The revolt exposed the failures of imposing indirect rule onto societies without centralized chieftaincy in the same form as northern emirates.

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