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This is the statue of a great woman Late Madam Udo Udoma from Akwa Ibom State who wrestled and seized a gun from one of the policemen and broke it into two during the "Women's Peaceful Protest" which the British tagged as "Aba Women Riot" in 1929.
The Women's War, or Aba Women's Riots (Igbo: Ogu Umunwanyi; Ibibio: Ekong Iban), was a period of unrest in British Nigeria over November 1929. The protests broke out when thousands of Igbo women from the Bende District, Umuahia and other places in eastern Nigeria traveled to.....
...the town of Oloko to protest against the Warrant Chiefs, whom they accused of restricting the role of women in the government. The Aba Women's Riots of 1929, as it was named in British colonial records, is more aptly considered a strategically executed anti-colonial..........
...revolt organised by women to redress social, political and economic grievances. The protest encompassed women from six ethnic groups (Ibibio, Andoni, Orgoni, Bonny, Opobo, and Igbo). It was organised and led by the rural women of Owerri and Calabar provinces. During the.......
..events, many Warrant Chiefs were forced to resign and 16 Native Courts were attacked, most of which were destroyed. It was the first major anti-colonial revolt by women in West Africa. In 1930 the colonial government abolished the system of warrant chieftains, and appointed....
women to the Native Court system. These reforms were built upon by the African women and have been seen as a prelude to the emergence of mass African anti-colonial nationalism. Our African women in those days were truly strong and courageous, they all spoke with one voice.....
..against injustice, bad governance in Africa. They never supported, or promoted evil deeds. They taught their children good moral values, and brought them up as responsible adults. They were driven by love, peace, and unity. They were not feminists or slay-mamas, but........
..they were virtuous women and responsible mothers. It's sad that most of our African women today have lost their savors. Moral values are no longer part of their system. They emulate and promote immoralities. All over the world, women are known as nation builders, but i keep....
...on wondering what kind of nations today's African women will build for the unborn generations because many of them have lost their savors in life. Most of today's African women are not worthy to be in the categories of women because they're nation destroyers.......
..and not nation builders. Today's African females celebrate and promote sex on national TV. Those great African women who fought for the good of their societies were not brought up this way. They were disciplined, determined, strong, diligent, and very outrageous.
Today's African women need to go back to their root. They need to rediscover their place of motherhood in the world. Women are nation builders not nation destroyers. What makes you a woman is your dynamic ability to build nations.
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