Which Nigerian leader led the resistance against British colonization in the Aba Women’s War of 1929?
Source: JAMB · 2024
Which Nigerian leader led the resistance against British colonization in the Aba Women’s War of 1929?
Explanation
Note: The marked answer appears historically inaccurate. The Aba Women’s War of 1929 was led by thousands of Igbo and Ibibio women. Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born in 1900 but became prominent in the 1940s-1950s, not 1929.
The war started when women protested unfair taxation policies. Market women like Nwanyeruwa and others organized the protests. Tens of thousands of women participated across southeastern Nigeria.
This uprising showed women’s political power against colonial rule. No single leader directed it; it was a mass movement of ordinary women.
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