Opinion: Women’s Day: Nigerian Women and the Struggle for Social Liberation, By Owei Lakemfa
The International Women’s Day and Women Liberation is to encourage the Woman to remain standing despite all odds, just as 15-year old Leah Sharibu stood, even in captivity, against the depravity of the Boko Haram.
Britain had commenced its final take over and colonisation of what is today Nigeria, with its 1851 invasion of Lagos under the guise of stopping the slave trade. Ten years later, it formally colonised Lagos. In 1897, Britain invaded one of the largest empires in African history, the Benin Empire, burnt down Benin City and looted its treasures. In 1903, it overran the largest cities in the North – Kano, Yola, Hadejia and the Sokoto Caliphate.
The 2019 Women’s Day coincides with the 90th anniversary of the greatest women’s revolt in African history, the 1929 Aba Women’s Uprising, which the British colonialists sought to denigrate by officially referring to it as a ‘riot’. The Oloko women who began the uprising elected three middle age women: Nwanndie, Ikonnia and Nwugo, who were no longer bearing children, as their spokespersons or leaders. Other towns equally adopted this.
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