Voices from the 1930 inquiry into the Aba women’s war, By Tayo Agunbiade
Aba Women's War, 1929. The use of the Lewis machine gun to shoot the women was given a robust defence ...
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A 1930s debate: “Surplus women” in Nigeria, By Tayo Agunbiade
"If there is a shortage of women in the world, I can understand the necessity for advocating a rigorous adherence ...
The Sage and his Jewel: A society wedding in Ikenne Remo, By Tayo Agunbiade
"A society wedding took place at Ikenne Remo on Sunday December 26, when Mr Obafemi Awolowo was married to Miss ...
Anthony Enahoro, women and the Western House of Assembly, By Tayo Agunbiade
Chief Anthony Enahoro In pre-Independence Nigeria, Enahoro’s Motion set the pace for a handful of women to be nominated to ...
Election cycles and Nigerian women (3): Speaking with one voice, By Tayo Agunbiade
In real terms, we have the numbers to vote-in women contestants into the national and state legislatures, en bloc. But ...
Election cycles and Nigerian Women (2): Winning but no critical mass yet, By Tayo Agunbiade
Although the past several years have seen a larger turn-out of women standing in the elections of 2007, 2011, 2015 ...
Election cycles and Nigerian women: A historical perspective (1), By Tayo Agunbiade
Margaret Ekpo of the NCNC stood for the 1961 election in the Aba Urban District constituency and won convincingly. The ...
Commemorating the Abeokuta women’s tax protests, 74 years after, By Tayo Agunbiade
...the women’s persistence paid off. In 1948, the Special Tax Assessment Policy on women was revoked, but the damage had ...
Nigerian Women and authorship of the Constitution, By Tayo Agunbiade
The authorship of a Constitution affects the product. We are waiting to see if this time, the outcome will be ...
The urgency of preserving our National Archives and history, By Tayo Agunbiade
National Archives of Nigeria, Ibadan. ...one thing is clear, it is time for our national archives to dump paper-based research ...