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ThrowBack Thursday – Abeokuta Women’s Revolt (1949)
April 19, 2022
The Abeokuta Women’s Revolt, also known as the Egba Women’s Tax Riot, was a resistance movement championed by the Abeokuta Women’s Union (AWU) and led by two middle-class women, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti and Grace Eniola Soyinka, in the late 1940s. The major issue which the movement revolted against centred on the imposition of unfair taxation … Continue reading ThrowBack Thursday – Abeokuta Women’s Revolt (1949)
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