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The Abeokuta Women's Revolt (also called the Egba Women's Tax Riot) was a resistance movement led by the Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU) in the late 1940s...

Nigeria during the course of the First World War. The Abeokuta Women's Revolt, led by the Abeokuta Women's Union (AWU), took place in the 1940s. It was a resistance...

in a refusal organized by the Moslem League. The Abeokuta Women's Revolt (also called the Egba Women's Tax Riot) was a resistance movement against the...

many of the women. 1947 27 November Abeokuta Women's Revolt Abeokuta Women's Union Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Alake's Palace, Abeokuta The women protested against...

classes for lower-income women. During the 1940s, Ransome-Kuti established the Abeokuta Women’s Union and advocated for women’s rights, demanding better...

During the late 1940s, the Abeokuta Women's Revolt protested the Nigerian colonial government's imposition of new taxes upon women. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti...

international feminist activity of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria". Women's Studies International Forum. 32 (1): 58. doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2009.01.004...

and the formation of the Abeokuta Women's Union (initially called the Abeokuta Ladies' Club) which led to the revolt against colonial rule and the patriarchy...

the Lagos Market Women's Association, Nigerian Women's Party, and Abeokuta Women's Union. There was also an "elaborate system of women's market networks"...

was met with fierce opposition, most famously in the case of the Abeokuta women's revolt in Nigeria. Following independence, sovereign states solidified...

Revolution. In 1947, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led the Abeokuta Women's Union in a revolt that resulted in the abdication of the Egba High King Oba...

independence, women organized through movements like the Abeokuta Women's Revolt and the Women's War. Margaret Ekpo was one of the most important female...

collapsed), the majority of Mino generally supported peace with the Egba of Abeokuta arguing instead to raid smaller, less defended tribes. This set them at...

out between Ibadan and both Egba Alake (Abeokuta) and Ijebu. Further to the east, the Ekiti and Ijesa revolted against Ibadan rule in 1878, and sporadic...

Ashanti-Akim War 1768 Yoruba-Ashanti War 1851 First Dahomean-Abeokuta War 1864 Second Dahomean-Abeokuta War 1889–1894 France conquers Dahomey October 28, 1963...

her private battalion fought against the Dahomeyans when they invaded Abeokuta in the 1850s and the 1860s. The legendary Candace of Meroe (a title, her...

nineteenth century when all the powers had gone, Ibadan, Ijaye, new Oyo and Abeokuta wanted to replace old Oyo. Older kingdoms made up of Ife and Ijebu, wanted...

other lands. In 1805, Scipio Vaughan who was a native of Owu Kingdom in Abeokuta, Nigeria, was captured by European trans-Atlantic slave trade and was taken...

Lagos-Ibadan-Abeokuta military district where loyalist troops led by army commander Johnson Aguyi-Ironsi succeeded in crushing the revolt. Apart from Ifeajuna...

lieutenant and appointed Platoon Commander of the Second Infantry Battalion in Abeokuta, Nigeria. From November 1963 to January 1964, Buhari attended the Platoon...