Afolabi, A.S2023-05-212023-05-212016https://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/10536What 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 Egbaland, against a backdrop of an unfriendly tax regime imposed on them by the British colonial administration. Adopting primary and secondary sources, this study posits that the British parasitic tax impositions on women disrupted the unstable balance between them and traditional authorities. Although taxes were imposed by colonial machineries,exacting the levies was the responsibility of Sole Native Authorities, whose exaction methods were exceedingly demanding for and unacceptable to women. The women revolts showed clearly that the indigenous Egba women, led by Mrs. Olufunmilayo Ransome Kuti, refused to be ignored as they stridently and vociferously demanded for their rights from British colonial administration. the paper found out that the immediate post-colonial Nigerian women did not, sadly build on the modicum of success which was achieved by the indefatigable colonial women. The paper concluded that the colonial government attempts at incorporating the women folks into her taxation policy led to hiccups which, consequently, generated variegated reactions from individuals and women groups in colonial Yorubaland. The women's calculated responses climaxed in concessions, which, though not total, went a long way in ameliorating the socio-economic and political challenges faced by Egba women.Egba women riot, protest within colonial Nigeria, Egba women union, YorubalandArticle