Untold Histories of Nigerian Women

This book is a curation of insightful and engaging narrations aimed at freeing women from the margins of Nigerias history. It chronicles their protest movements against colonial administrations, including monster petitions on taxation and food price controls. It details a string of remarkable political landmarks which highlight womens historical credentials as nationalists, as well as their voice in early male-dominated legislative institutions. It also narrates more contemporary episodes in womens resistance against oil exploitation, environmental pollution and anger over the mass abduction of school girls. This timely preservation of the voice and agency of Nigerian women from a wide variety of colonial and contemporary documents will benefit readers interested in African history and gender and women's studies.