Tax and Women: A Review of the 1929 Owerri Province Insurrection in Colonial Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorAfolabi A.S
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-17T09:07:50Z
dc.date.available2024-04-17T09:07:50Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe present study examined the causes, course and consequences of the Aba Women revolts in colonial Nigeria (West Africa). Using a combina tion of primary and secondary historical sources, the study found that a multiplicity of remote and immediate factors were responsible for the revolt. While taxation of men and rumored extension of same to women was the immediate cause of the revolts, the factors such as low price of palm produce/high cost of imported goods, discontent arising from persecution and corruption from native courts system, and change in the method of buying produce (from buying by measure to buying by weight) were also significant. The study revealed that the well organised women's revolts were targeted at the native courts, warrant chiefs and foreign business interests. The study also found that the seat of the revolts was not Aba, but Oloko, and women from many parts of the province participated. Lastly, the study established that the revolts changed the dynamics of colonial administration in Owerri Province as it led to changes in administrative modalities. The study concluded that women were not passive victims of colonial op pression but active collaborators in the resistance to oppressive and repressive colonial policies.
dc.identifier.citation23. Afolabi, A.S. (2022): Tax and Women: A Review of the 1929 Owerri Province Insurrection in Colonial Nigeria. Social Evolution and History, 21 (2): 13 - 32
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/3342358/
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/123456789/12156
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUchitel Publishing House
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 21, Number 2
dc.subjecttaxation
dc.subjectwarrant chiefs
dc.subjectwomen
dc.subjectindirect rule
dc.subjectowerri province
dc.titleTax and Women: A Review of the 1929 Owerri Province Insurrection in Colonial Nigeria
dc.typeArticle

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