Protest Within Compliance in Colonial Nigeria
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2016
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ALORE, Ilorin Journal of Humanities
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What constituted acceptable protest in the colonial Nigeria? Put differently, were there justifiable protests? Addressing these posers, this paper examined the activities of women in colonial Egba land against a backdrop of an unfriendly tax regime imposed on them by the British colonial administration. Adopting primary and secondary sources, this study posited that the British parasitic tax imposition on Egba women disrupted the unstable balance between them and traditional..... authorities
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Egba Women Riot, Protest Within Colonial Nigeria, Egba Women Union, Yorubaland