The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria

by Judith A. Byfield

Book Overview

This social and intellectual history of women's political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria's colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women's Union and then of Nigeria's first national women's organization,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821423983
• ISBN13: 9780821423981
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"